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Gnome3 is, in almost every way, a usability regression. �It simply takes many times more work (clicks, drags, gestures, etc. etc.) to perform almost any given action (opening an app, closing an app, finding an app, etc. etc.) in G3 than it does in either Unity or G2. �
By way of example, window management in particular is a nightmare. �Consider the following task: I want to, for a moment, get a window out of my way (to see the window behind it) and then put it back. �In G2 or Unity I would:
- minimize the app (one click) - restore the app (one click in G2, one or two clicks in Unity, depending on the number of open windows) In Gnome3, I can do this several ways, but the easiest involves:
- moving mouse to a hot corner, or using the keyboard shortcut to trigger the expose-like feature - pick the window I want to raise to the top - go again to hot corner or use keyboard combination
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Phong Cao <phngcv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind GNOME Shell in Fedora 15.I think exactly the opposite. �Unity is... about 80% of the way there. �There are a lot of nits and picks I could make to it, but for the most part, it works really well. �Gnome3 is, in almost every way, a usability regression. �It simply takes many times more work (clicks, drags, gestures, etc. etc.) to perform almost any given action (opening an app, closing an app, finding an app, etc. etc.) in G3 than it does in either Unity or G2. �By way of example, window management in particular is a nightmare. �Consider the following task: I want to, for a moment, get a window out of my way (to see the window behind it) and then put it back. �In G2 or Unity I would:- minimize the app (one click)- restore the app (one click in G2, one or two clicks in Unity, depending on the number of open windows)In Gnome3, I can do this several ways, but the easiest involves:- moving mouse to a hot corner, or using the keyboard shortcut to trigger the expose-like feature- pick the window I want to raise to the top- go again to hot corner or use keyboard combination- pick the original windowTook two simple clicks before; takes a gesture and a click now. �Don't even get me started on all the different gestures and drags necessary to use all those workspaces, or all of the information about my computer or applications that I can no longer see without first going into the "activities" window. �Ugh. �I'm glad you like it, but I can't possibly figure out how anyone can call it "easier," and know for a fact that with all the additional steps one has to take to perform the same actions, it absolutely isn't "simpler". �I can't believe it was released as a finished product. �It's the _least_ convenient desktop GUI experience I think I may have ever had, short of trying to configure AfterStep. �
One man's opinion, take it or leave it. �--G