I thought you may be interested in what I encountered.
In my evaluation, I got more negative feelings about Gnome than the
3.6 version. With 3.6 version, for any program not within the
favourites bar, it requires 4 mouse clicks to launch.
With Fedora 19, Gnome 4.x it takes 7 mouse clicks. By the way, with
Cinnamon, it is 1 mouse click to open the menu, then slide to the
appropriate application and click a second time. Done.
There is a favourites bar as well on the side, and a second favourites
bar on the bottom panel.
For a user of the system. Office, browse, email, some installed
packages and games, Gnome 4.x is very heavy on using the left mouse
button. I ended up with tendonitus and had to quit using Gnome, or
suffer major tendon damage (repetitive action damage). It is I that
had the problem and I cannot say that others will have experienced
similar problems.
I do have questions about Gnome 4. What is the difference between
Favourites bar contents and Frequent items. If items are used
frequently, they should replace the items in the favourites bar.
Frenquent items list is maintained dynamically, and often incorrectly,
and the other is a static placement. Did anyone notice that if an
item is in Frequent side of the collection, it is no longer in the All
side of the collection.
My major grype with Gnome Desktop is the [:::] (9 sided die)
launcher. Why is it not removed from the favourites bar and placed
next to Activities? Putting it there would save two clicks on the
mouse. With a little logic, it may even be possible to replace
Activities by this [:::] launcher.
If we look at the Linux users in the world, the majority of the
population writes from left to right. (Arabic, Hebrew, and a few other
languages are right to left). Therefore it made better sense to have
the favourites bar and the workspace selection on the right side of
the desktop presentation. Why do we have to slide from extreme top
left to extreme right to select an alternate workspace.
Ergonomical design and how people use the computer to generate output
would indicate that there is much to do to improve Gnome.
I am trying to be positive about identifying and fixing items that
cause Linux users to shy away from Gnome.
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
50 years in Information Technology and going strong.
Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com
alternative: leslie.satenstein(a)gmail.com
SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM.
Two things:
(1) I don't anything about Anaconda in that message
(2) The message has nothing to do with the fedora-design team and
shouldn't be on this mailing list
Thanks for running Fedora, but it might be more productive to send your
desktop evalution report to Gnome developers or fedora Desktop Group.
Regards
Onyeibo
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