grege wrote:You can have a bottom toolbar with task switcher, a Mint style menu on the bottom toolbar and a traditional notification area on the top toolbar. My Skype icon is back next to the clock where it belongs.
The Gnome 3 misfeatures that repeatedly spike my own blood pressure are these:
Lack of a way to put customizable launcher buttons
with optional menus in the top panel
Lack of one-click window switching (I far prefer clicking to keyboard for this)
Lack of desktop icons (ejecting removable devices cleanly is now
hard)
Lack of a hierarchical (as opposed to folding) Applications menu
Horribly broken kerning in the new default system font, which I have yet to find a way to replace in menus and top panel
No reasonable way to set font size in GDM
No reasonable way to suppress the appearance of selected users in the GDM face browser (no, I really
don't want to change their UIDs, thank you very much)
Broken rendering (specifically, incomplete patch-wise scrolling that often makes it really hard to click on clickable things in Iceweasel)
Jarring top panel colour scheme (oh how I
loathe white text on a black background)
Windows that maximize themselves if I drag them too far up the screen
Windows that
don't maximize themselves on app start even though they were maxed at last close
Lack of minimize and restore/maximize controls in window title bars
Cannot completely disable screen powerdown on idle (so much for watching movies in bed)
Noticeably less responsive than Gnome 2 - feels like my mouse has treacle in the cable
I want my wobbly windows back, goddammit
Likewise all my pretty screensavers
and to add insult to injury
the XFCE panel and desktop refuse to work at all on my box since installing Gnome 3
The only reason I'm not listing more is that I'm currently using a Windows box from work, which means none of them are currently all up in my face.
The
only Gnome 3 feature that actually strikes me as an improvement is the idea of always having one more blank workspace available. But considering that in general the only time I want guaranteed access to a blank workspace is to look at my desktop icons, which are now just
gone, this is a
tiny high spot in a vast sea of glurge.
How much of this can I fix in 3.2?