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If you like client-side decorations, the annoying part is that every application you use needs to be modified to draw their own windows in this new style. This
by ohazi 7y ago
If you like client-side decorations, the annoying part is that every application you use needs to be modified to draw their own windows in this new style. This takes years, and the intermediate period looks inconsistent. Even in the ideal "endgame" state where all of your apps have switched over to the new style, each app draws their decorations and organizes their menus and buttons slightly differently, so this state also feels inconsistent.
If you don't like client-side decorations, the annoying part is that there doesn't appear to be a good way to opt-out. You can configure your window manager to draw the system title-bars anyway, so that you at least have consistent pin/minimize/maximize/close buttons, but then you usually end up with a double menu. But also, the process of applications moving to this style usually involves throwing away the standard File / Edit / View / ... / Help menu bar, which can be incredibly annoying if not done thoughtfully.
I stopped using gedit because everything is now buried under a single hamburger menu, and interacting with it is infuriating.
- kfrzcode 7y agoI haven't had issues w/ i3wm and polybar on debian, but I'm somewhat of a zealot when it comes to reducing "noise" on my desktop and am happy to deal with the foibles that pursuit entails.
- ohazi 7y agoI've been happy with Xfce since Gnome lost me with v3. I've also found myself relying so much on my tile-window-left/right/NW/NE/SW/SE shortcuts that using a computer without them has become aggravating. I think I'll probably hold out until Xfce becomes too unusable and then just bite the bullet and pick a tiling wm.
- btrettel 7y agoI could have written this comment. I tried awesome around 2012 for a while but found that I didn't like it. My tastes and habits have changed substantially since then so I might try awesome or another tiling WM. Before I used Gnome I used IceWM and I might give that another try too, as I think it has some basic tiling features.
- dleslie 7y ago> I stopped using gedit because everything is now buried under a single hamburger menu, and interacting with it is infuriating. This seems to be a common user story with all of Gnome3.