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Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3
An anonymous reader writes "Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has forked Gnome 3 and named it Cinnamon. Mint has experimented with extensions to Gnome in the latest release of their operating system, but in order to make the experience they are aiming for really work, they needed an actual fork. The goal of this fork is to use the improved Gnome 3 internals and put a more familiar Gnome 2 interface on it."
But the replacement is a kludge for tiny screens that's a horrible mess on a desktop with a decently sized monitor. I find it's contnually covering up things I want to click on all for the sake of not 'wasting' a few pixels on a 1920x1080 monitor; it's annoying, it's ugly and it provides no benefit over the old status bar.
Your points seem to be "the space it saves is too minuscule to make any difference on my screen" and "somehow those few irrelevant pixels are where all the links I want to click reside". I'm all for silly debates, but come on. And a fixed bar would be better than that how, exactly? Maybe you don't know about a Firefox feature called "scrolling". It's actually pretty common among browsers. But the most ridiculous part abot your trolling (intentional or not) is that the status bar only appears when your hover over a link, and if said link is to be covered by its appearance, then it shifts position and appears on the right.
To sum up: you're talking out of your ass. The problems you describe cannot exist. Please shut up.
...but seriously, while the Gnome developers could have done more on getting the configuration tools out there for the desktop, once you begin getting a handle on the configuration, it's not bad. Just different.
Ubuntu's Unity is the one I have a problem with. It feels like I'm running a netbook even though I don't own one.