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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."
too busy with Mono these days ...
Okay I have been using a Mac for development for a bit now.
As to it "just working" honestly not anymore than my PC just works.
Getting my cell phone and another device to work over bluetooth? Have not got it working yet.
Networking and printers are working just fine.
But the UI really makes me nuts.
Why must I grab the bottom right corner to resize a window? Under Windows I can do it from any part of the frame,
And why the stinking apple key! isn't alt and control good enough. I keep hiting ctrl c to copy !
And the Menus always at the top. What a waste of time.
I have to click on the window and then move my mouse to the top of the screen to pick a menu item!
Grrrrr...
Yes it works but so does XP and Ubuntu. It is pretty. I will give you that. Better looking than Windows and Gnome.
But usability is making me nuts.
I think the open apple key is the single worst thing about it. I HATE IT. And I am sure I can map the keyboard if I really want to but where?
Oh and don't hand me the "ctrl and alt are only better because that is what you are used too" crap
Yep but it is also what Linux and Windows both use! If Microsoft put a function like copy and paste on their "Windows keys" I would want to hurt them as well!
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it shouldn't go in a different direction just to be "different" from Windows.
Exactly, you only have to look at OSX to see that needlessly trying to be different just ends up making things awkward.
Stupid end-user. As with KDE4, you're perspective and interest in GNOME 3 is irrelevant. The developers are writing code for their own personal entertainment, not because they want you to use it.
Should your message have been posted on a GNOME or KDE message board, it would have been deleted by an admin for being a troll.
I fully agree. This GNOME thing is moronic. Like so many of their stuff, it reveals utter lack of clue wrt to usability. Yes, I hate GNOME. They are so Mac OS 8 interface guidelines...
Mandriva's Smart Desktop looks way....smarter.
This ain't free-as-in-Shuttleworth-candybar software, though. Mandriva being a company, and people actually having to work for a living to feed the kids, they reserved this for their paying customers (me, for instance). Those who oppose such model can grow a beard and use a notebook with a lame Linux and no GUI (i.e., emulate Stallman) or seek to hit the jackpot and become an instant millionaire (such as Shuttleworth). PS: How such people manage to not pay for their actual hardware is beyond my comprehension? Using their shirts? Large pants?
Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts