Exploring the new GNOME 3.0 User Shell

Ars Technica takes a look at GNOME 3

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Science & Technology

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• gnome
• arstechnica
• open source
• linux
• shell

[cc6809]

Looking good...

[SentinelCoding]

@BasioBasio12 Its a desktop environment, and is not included in all linux distros.

[mypenguinstr]

Congratulations GNOME team. Looks great.

[LMB222]

What is this crap on the left, a Vertical Apple? Where's the visible desktop switcher of ver. 2.3, which doesn't take a huge 300ms to appear? Where's the network connection and VPN icon? Probably all hidden somewhere. Is this an "improved user experience", or is this a visual war with Apple?

I could not care for the latter software producer, and I am sure I'm no the only one.

[LTS1287]

@ocmsolutions: There's only so much you can do with a desktop environment, really. Linux desktop environments have had a lot of really cool features that both Microsoft and Apple failed to catch on to until recently. However, that's the benefit of open source. If you don't like something you're free to change it instead of waiting for some corporation to decide whether or not its cost effective. I believe at one point Xerox tried to patent the idea of clicking on an icon.

[WunderWafer]

no minimize button? wtf

[ocmsolutions]

Is it just me or does gnome 3 kinda look and work life os x lion?

*expose

*sideways 2d dock

*app scrolling

*wallpaper changer

*settings box

Etc....

[8jwong14]

I love it so far. It seems to make my work more efficient. However, theming support really needs to be improved and there should be ways to change theme settings by default like "Appearence" in Ubuntu.

[EpikEthan]

@cr656565 You've lost me haha. I'm talking about ideas in general, and how people assume that it's "stolen" because someone came up with it first and someone wants to improve on it.

[cr656565]

@EpikEthan That is all from one point of view. I see one icon on the screen. You have lost all points for sainty in my book. There needs to be text for every icon or no icons at all. Xmonad FTW!!!

[EpikEthan]

If something is pretty, sane, and intuitive at the same time, it MUST be stolen from Apple!

Ideas should be shared, not locked away where no one can help and improve on them. Eventually, people will come up with all these ideas. It doesn't really matter who makes it first, just as long as it helps other people have a better computing experience.

[cooltd825]

If it's flashy and intuitive, it must have been stolen from Apple.

I find the OS X interface outdated and horribly inefficient at managing windows. Exposé was a necessary but half baked attempt to remedy this problem. GNOME Shell, while maybe borrowing from Unity, provides a high level of organization to the mess while keeping it intuitive and appealing.