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As a long time user, and a front-end developer, Gnome 2 and its derivatives don't make much sense to me. "Vertical taskbar? Not on my watch!" Sometimes I feel

As a long time user, and a front-end developer, Gnome 2 and its derivatives don't make much sense to me. "Vertical taskbar? Not on my watch!" Sometimes I feel like I am the only person to setup a vertical bar and complain about them using a repeating 1x30px (don't remember the actual number) image for background, rendering the bar barely usable. Something MS nailed back with windows 95! Gnome 3 is mostly fine but not before you reach for at least a couple of basic add-ons. I truly believe believe they are trolling people with the default behaviour of Gnome 3 I liked Canonical's Unity very much, although it's no longer the prettiest. I realized that last part due to the recent reboot

lproven 4y ago
« As a long time user, and a front-end developer, Gnome 2 and its derivatives don't make much sense to me. "Vertical taskbar? Not on my watch!" Sometimes I feel like I am the only person to setup a vertical bar and complain about them using a repeating 1x30px (don't remember the actual number) image for background, rendering the bar barely usable. Something MS nailed back with windows 95! » Thank you for saying this, because I very often feel like I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness when I point this out. « I liked Canonical's Unity very much, although it's no longer the prettiest. I realized that last part due to the recent reboot » Also this. This, though: « Gnome 3 is mostly fine but not before you reach for at least a couple of basic add-ons. I truly believe believe they are trolling people with the default behaviour of Gnome 3 » This, however, less so. It is possible to give GNOME 3 a partial makeover into something better, with a lot of addons, some now getting very hard to find. The snag is that addons are tied to that particular version of GNOME Shell, and thus inevitably, an OS update that updates the shell breaks your entire desktop. The misplaced confidence of the GNOME team is such that they provide but do not embrace the addons scene, and so there is no support for a safe mode, for example, so that if your addons crash the desktop can recover. I would guess that the dev team use it unmodified and do not test for such things. "If you break it, you bought it." IOW: we didn't supply the extensions, so if they broke your desktop, it's not our problem.

lproven 4y ago

« As a long time user, and a front-end developer, Gnome 2 and its derivatives don't make much sense to me. "Vertical taskbar? Not on my watch!" Sometimes I feel like I am the only person to setup a vertical bar and complain about them using a repeating 1x30px (don't remember the actual number) image for background, rendering the bar barely usable. Something MS nailed back with windows 95! » Thank you for saying this, because I very often feel like I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness when I point this out. « I liked Canonical's Unity very much, although it's no longer the prettiest. I realized that last part due to the recent reboot » Also this. This, though: « Gnome 3 is mostly fine but not before you reach for at least a couple of basic add-ons. I truly believe believe they are trolling people with the default behaviour of Gnome 3 » This, however, less so. It is possible to give GNOME 3 a partial makeover into something better, with a lot of addons, some now getting very hard to find. The snag is that addons are tied to that particular version of GNOME Shell, and thus inevitably, an OS update that updates the shell breaks your entire desktop. The misplaced confidence of the GNOME team is such that they provide but do not embrace the addons scene, and so there is no support for a safe mode, for example, so that if your addons crash the desktop can recover. I would guess that the dev team use it unmodified and do not test for such things. "If you break it, you bought it." IOW: we didn't supply the extensions, so if they broke your desktop, it's not our problem.