On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:59 PM, isdtor@gmail.com wrote:
That's the concept behind the classic mode that was added as part of Gnome 3.8 and will be the default desktop on RHEL 7. Its user experience is right in line with Gnome 2 and isn't too much off a shift for existing users of RHEL, so I don't think there's any reason to get out the pitchforks.
Classic mode is a joke. I've tried it briefly on F19 and only agree with
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?s=d8e300363d613f371d2f39a913480ca... .
We want our users to be productive from day one. Fiddling around with this extension and that extension for 28 days to get a usable desktop is not an option (although Gallagher's review is quite good in most regards,
Average users/people often accept a UI. I think it's the bulk of the people on this list (admins/power users) that try to tweak our user interface (and servers) to the max. Nobody should spend nearly a month fiddling with a UI ... isn't there work to be done?
Besides this is CentOS (stable) we're talking about, not Fedora Rawhide (unstable/bleeding ... possibly prone to breakage) ... so the system is stable+usable even if it doesn't suit one's tastes.
I would disagree with that statement. I've always felt that Nautilus was a horrible interface and I've always been perplexed by the default behavior of opening a new window when I click on a folder. So you're never gonna make everyone happy.
Easily fixed by using browser windows. I'd be willing to bet that this is one of those "tweaks" many people make when they installed older Fedora versions and CentOS versions. :)
http://sgallagh.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/one-week-with-gnome-3-classic-prolo... .
I'm looking forward to the first RHEL7 beta to see first hand what we will be having to deal with. Haven't seen much more than RH Summit presentations yet.
Have you even tried the classic mode? From the times that I've used it, it is pretty close to a Gnome 2 style of user interface and it seemed like it would be pretty familiar to anyone that's used to Gnome 2.
Gnome3 isn't that bad if you give it a chance. (Sort of like KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.x ... people complained incessantly and eventually just accepted it and moved on.)
Gnome3 lacks the status bar items I enjoyed (without installing plugins/addons) which were immediately available in a default Gnome2 install. But that's easily remedied if you don't like the plain user interface. Not that it matters, but Debian Wheezy defaults to a Gnome3 user interface.
Some people are resistant to change - I am to a degree. Hopefully they can accept Gnome3's Classic Mode or adjust to using XFCE.
<sarcasm> And for those that don't want to upgrade, there's always CentOS 5 and 6 which will be available from vault.centos.org ;) </sarcasm>
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