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So the crowd "erupted into boisterous applause" when he states that, yet probably had a huge group of developers from Gnome present who actively work to destroy

So the crowd "erupted into boisterous applause" when he states that, yet probably had a huge group of developers from Gnome present who actively work to destroy the desktop through forcing us into a single-task, phone-like mentality via the joys of Gnome 3. The twisted part of this seeming cognitive dissonance is that the Gnome developers certainly don't see how their personal view of what a computer should look like and how users should interact with it is killing the desktop. In their world I suppose "desktop" simply means "not a phone" or "does not run off a li-on battery." (I've heard that more recent Gnome 3s added back much of the desktop functionality by default (desktop icons, minimize buttons in the title bar, etc.), but after trying the abomination that was Gnome 3.0 in Fedora 15, I fled to XFCE's loving embrace and never looked back. Maybe the Gnome devs changed their minds, maybe they're just kowtowing to the users' demands.)

rukittenme 12y ago
I've been using Gnome long term. I find it incredibly useful and productive. It scales very well and is completely touch capable but, make no mistake, it is a desktop environment. If you like to theme try to find a Gnome 3.10 distro, otherwise Gnome 3.12 is my favorite desktop environment ever. It is a work of art.
- collyw 12y ago
  How can Gnome "scale"? You are only going to use it one one desktop. You ain't going to scale it to 1000 cluster nodes.
  - rukittenme 12y ago
    I meant scale in terms of device size.
tracker1 12y ago
I'm actually pretty fond of Unity... Most of the few hotkeys that I use in windows for working through things are very similar, and it does well enough. I still think the Windows 7 start/task bar was a bit better though. OSX is a bit of a leap for me.. I shift my dock to the left, so my VM of windows can snag the bottom for it's start menu. Can't speak for Gnome 3 at all though... used it for a couple hours and switched out a few years back.

rukittenme 12y ago

I've been using Gnome long term. I find it incredibly useful and productive. It scales very well and is completely touch capable but, make no mistake, it is a desktop environment. If you like to theme try to find a Gnome 3.10 distro, otherwise Gnome 3.12 is my favorite desktop environment ever. It is a work of art.

collyw 12y ago
How can Gnome "scale"? You are only going to use it one one desktop. You ain't going to scale it to 1000 cluster nodes.
- rukittenme 12y ago
  I meant scale in terms of device size.

tracker1 12y ago

I'm actually pretty fond of Unity... Most of the few hotkeys that I use in windows for working through things are very similar, and it does well enough. I still think the Windows 7 start/task bar was a bit better though. OSX is a bit of a leap for me.. I shift my dock to the left, so my VM of windows can snag the bottom for it's start menu. Can't speak for Gnome 3 at all though... used it for a couple hours and switched out a few years back.