GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011

Julie188 writes "GNOME 3.0 was scheduled to be released in September but during the developers conference, GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag, the organization had to face facts: the much ballyhooed GNOME Shell really wasn't ready. The Shell is supposed to bring 'a whole new user experience to the desktop.' So now, in September, what users will see is GNOME 2.32, distributed as a new stable release. Next target date for 3.0: March 2011."

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Re:Probably a good thing

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I'm a pretty dedicated Gnome user, but I'll admit that the new shell isn't something I'm looking forward to. It's too non-traditional IMHO. Some basic designs have evolved in the computer UI world because they work very well, and this seems to be trying to shake things up for the sake of being different.

IMHO, the current Gnome UI with the taskbar replaced with a dock (I use Docky for this) is nearly perfect from a useability standpoint. Rather than major UI shakeups, what I want is polishing work. Smooth out the eye candy. Font rendering. Better artwork on default themes and icons. Performance tweaks. More work on specific apps.

All in all, the BASIC system is is perfect. Now's not the time to be changing it. Focus on the little things.

I disagree... but I think it's really going to be a user preference issue, some will love it, some will hate it since what gnome-shell does is far more radical than anyone has done in a decade.

The existing menus and toolbars are based on a 15 year old design concept. While, like you, I don't think they should throw out the baby with the bathwater, I do think that something new is in order given all the interesting things that have been done with the OSX, Vista and Win7 desktops.

Such a radical move will only work if it's a better experience all round, and from what I've seen so far the potential is certainly there.