I like Gnome Shell

Re:I like Gnome Shell by foenix on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:23PM (#4770775)

I was actually a fan of Gnome Shell until I went to the LinuxCon 2011 and started talking to the devs. It seems to me that they are trying to turn Gnome into something meant for beginning users while trying to train them with "good" habits. Example: shutdown can only be achieved by holding alt (without gnome-tweak). Considering I have limited power when I'm mobile, I usually shutdown (bootup time is negligible compared to standby power-loss on my netbook).

That being said, I've switched to Cinnamon and haven't looked back: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by vacri on Sunday November 11, 2012 @06:38PM (#4770989)

'good habits' apparently don't extend to having a quickbar for frequently used programs. I don't understand the horror of that idea - pretty much everyone else, including mobile OSes, give the user the opportunity to be able to start favourite programs with a single action.

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by nagisa on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:46AM (#4772070)

GNOME Shell has had a dock for favourite applications starting with 3.0. It's on the left side in overview.

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by Andrex on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:53AM (#4771890)

"Power Off" is a default user menu entry in Gnome 3.6 now. :)

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