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I don't think they're trying to do that at all. In fact, with the activities overview, I think GNOME is the best out of any desktop at managing and manipulating

by catern 13y ago

I don't think they're trying to do that at all. In fact, with the activities overview, I think GNOME is the best out of any desktop at managing and manipulating windows. I use a tiling window manager myself, but I agree with (what I think is) GNOME's approach: minimize/restore is not a good way to manage windows.

exacube 13y ago
i think it's only recently that applications started moving away from using multiple windows towards using multiple tabs in a single window. I think the number-of-actions to get to a particular window (or even another app) is too high in Gnome. Why is the task/app switching bar a mouse-move or windows-key + another click away? The task list should be visible on your screen at all times if you choose, because there are very few apps that actually effectively utilize the full-screen. I mean, every major desktop environment (including non-Linux) have this right. I think this issue is definitely something you can ignore by getting used to it but it's still an issue. I really feel like Gnome makes "different and new" a higher priority than UX.