[lugm.org] Linus Torvalds finds GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure"
Nitin K Sookun
nsgupta at indra.mu
Sat Jun 9 06:13:04 UTC 2012
UoM Computer Club is looking for sponsors for an open source event maybe
when University resumes.
We could add this in the agenda as well.
Regards,
Nitin
On 06/09/2012 10:04 AM, Ronny R. wrote:
> by relocating, i mean pubs or restos
>
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Ronny R. <redoverlord at gmail.com
> <mailto:redoverlord at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> mono sucks mr.
>
> BTW: next meeting we will discuss abt this.
>
> Selven can you set up meeting for end of month?
>
> No we dont need to wait for bank.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ronny
>
> PS:
> We need to relocate meetings
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Keshwarsingh Nadan
> <kn at servihoo.net <mailto:kn at servihoo.net>> wrote:
>
> Both gnome & kde are shit.
>
> Try mono
>
> Regards,
>
> kn
>
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> *Arvind Doobary
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> *Subject:* Re: [lugm.org <http://lugm.org>] Linus Torvalds
> finds GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure"
>
> My reason of moving from KDE4 to Gnome was exactly the same,
> resource hog :P
> I'm not going back to KDE, yet. XFCE is not mature enough for
> my usage and I'm thinking of trying both MATE and Cinnamon
> sometime soon when I get time to update my distro.
> If Cinammon does what I want it to do, then I wouldn't mind
> the ocassional bug, since it's quite new and is very actively
> developed this is to be expected.
> I'd had gripes with GDM3 also, and it was already a sign that
> the folks at Gnome were getting goofy.
>
> Cheers,
> Arvind
>
>
> On 06/06/12 18:10, Yasir MX wrote:
>
> I had to kick gnome and resort to kde lol...
>
> The UI which once was resource efficient is now crap :((
>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:48:47 +0400
> From: pcthegreat at gmail.com <mailto:pcthegreat at gmail.com>
> To: ishwon at opensuse.org <mailto:ishwon at opensuse.org>;
> discuss at discuss.lugm.org <mailto:discuss at discuss.lugm.org>
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org <http://lugm.org>] Linus Torvalds finds
> GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure"
>
> gnome3 definitely has become a major turnoff, i basically
> stopped using gnome at all ever since they screwed up with
> gdm's configuration for login screen's theme at some point,
> sincei felt such a feature should have been considerred
> normal and i should be doing any tweaks to do that. I just use
> my nix environment remotely now, my mac's front end is fine!
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Nitin K Sookun
> <nsgupta at indra.mu <mailto:nsgupta at indra.mu>> wrote:
>
> I tested Cinnamon on Mint 12 and currently using the same on LMDE.
> Well... To know if Cinnamon is better than gnome depends a lot
> on what you expect from a desktop environment.
>
> Cinnamon sits on top on Gnome, so you're ultimately using the
> same thing but interacting differently.
> I'd advise you moving to Cinnamon if you prefer the old school
> menu... But if you want it to perform better or be less buggy,
> then you'll be disappointed.
>
> Better migrating with XFCE or something else in that respect.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nitin K Sookun
>
>
>
> I blog athttp://hacklog.in.
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> Reach me through freenode #opensuse and spotchat #linuxmint-help. My nick is Ishwon.
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> On 06/05/2012 09:35 PM, Mohammad Nadim Qaadiri Razavi Attari
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just installed Linux Mint 13 (Maya) this weekend - with
> Cinnamon. Well Mint 12 (Lisa) also had Cinnamon.
>
> I just love it. :-)
>
> On 5 June 2012 21:09, Arvind Doobary <arvind.d at intnet.mu
> <mailto:arvind.d at intnet.mu>> wrote:
>
> I've been sharing his feelings since GNOME 3.X. I really
> find 3.x to be very counter-productive and stuck to using
> Gnome 2. I'll wait a bit more to try out Cinnamon though,
> as I don't have much time to tinker with my system for
> now. Anyone tried Cinnamon (cinnamon.linuxmint.com
> <http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com>) ?
>
> -Arv
>
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