Linus Torvalds Has Changed His Mind About Gnome 3
plus.google.com
plus.google.com
Granted, I spend most of my time in terminal and use GUI to launch Chrome, Thunderbird and GIMP (mostly via Alt-F1 and typing name of app), but still, I like it so far.
On a new laptop I plan to try again KDE (after 1 year working in gnome) just to see how far it went, but I strongly advise anyone on Ubuntu 11.10 at least try gnome-shell - it is so easy, so you will not waste much time if you not like it.
I have used to move mouse on screen up-left corner to see the windows thumbnails view. then the windows became hard to distinquish. On KDE, they have diffrent size or shape, and icons over the thumbnails.GNOME has the same size and shape, and the window's name is too small to read.
the sidebar, the dock whatever, useless to me.
Also, nice calling the work of others "brain damage" when they really try to improve the state of desktop usability. Granted, not every of the concepts is brilliant, but if you don't try, we'll be stuck in Windows 95 concepts forever
Isn't it obvious that he means that they won't accept them as built-in and/or the defaults, not that they don't accept them as extensions.
Linus also alludes to the exact same thing when he suggests they make them "easy to find and part of the standard install", and adds:
Or would that be too close to "Ok, we admit we were wong" and thus not politically acceptable?
"""Also, nice calling the work of others "brain damage" when they really try to improve the state of desktop usability."""
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Shipping sane defaults is not a bad way to go, given that the extensions are easily findable and installable by power users that want them.
I still run GNOME 3.0, so the extension installer doesn't work for me, so I can't confirm. But I think with GNOME 3.2 onwards the extensions gallery stuff should be installable pretty much as easily as extensions for your browser are.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I can assure you, the road to hell is not paved at all: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/153040664/in/set-7215759...
(as context, there is a valley called 'Hell' in South Africa)
Oh, and it should be mentioned that nothing stops Linux distributions from shipping the extensions they feel necessary. Look at what the Mint guys did for their GNOME 3 setup: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_lisa_whatsnew.php