[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[James Sumners]

Here's something funny and on topi --
https://twitter.com/1990slinuxuser/status/54942913846710272

On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
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> Just burned a live disk of F15 and took it for a test drive.  I agree with Jim...110%.  Gnome3 is Gnot for me in the least.  Why does it seem that Fedora is taking ques from Canonical?  In my opinion it is way too geared for a newbie user with limited exposure to M$ and/or too heavy on the look and feel for a tablet edition.  Rather disappointing on first look....
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> First boot wasn't too smooth either.  Likely issues with my dual XFX 6800 GS (SLI) GPUs -- something that F12 had nailed right out of the box!  I won't even go into the UI.  Couldn't even right-click to change desktop properties (or did I miss something?)
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> Sorry these comments aren't very technical but if first impressions make lasting opinions...I have a very low opinion of Gnome3 after this first look.  Hoping the development team gets it together for future releases.
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> RinL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com <Scott%20Castaline%20%3cskotchman at gmail.com%3e>>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale at ale.org%3e>>
> Subject: Re: [ale] gnome3. I give up.
> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:09:41 -0400
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> On 06/07/2011 05:24 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> On 06/06/2011 12:56 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>>> Classic gnome and compiz is what I want and what works for me in this
>>> application.  I do coding, website development and graphics on my home
>>> system.  Reinventing the wheel is not what I want as a user and member
>>> of this community; it's usability and ease of getting what I want from
>>> an OS that I can configure to do what I want.  To that end the
>>> "classics" worked just fine for me.  But that's just me....RinL
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>> Not sure where I should jump in on this one, but I haven't seen anyone
>> mention anything about numlock not being set. Should I assume that I'm
>> the only one with not being able to set numlock on? If so can someone
>> enlighten me with a gsetting that would turn it on on logging in as
>> setting it in the gconf editor does not seem to have any impact. I
>> seem to have this nasty habit of using my numeric keypad, forgetting
>> that the annoying trait of not setting numlock on on login in Gnome3
>> which causes weird things to happen. I am really trying to accept
>> change as "change is good",,, isn't it?
> Found it. The Fedora Forum didn't have an answer to others that had
> posted with the problem, but did find a post from Jan, 2011 on Ubuntu
> about numlockx (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock) that seems to
> have fixed it.
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