“I was very surprised when I walked onto the floor at Foxconn, how tranquil it is compared with a garment factory,” Mr. van Heerden said, according to the Reuters report.
You would expect that in a place where things are assembled completely by hand and the employees aren't allowed to talk. Whether that makes it a good environment is a different question.
Or American Express checking my credit rating nearly ten times in the space of a few years, and bombarding me with credit card offers. I already have two cards, assholes, and that's at least one more than I need.
Got it, targeted ads you don't want are detestable, targeted ads you do are not. Great reasoning.
And since I have to buy *something*, why wouldn't I buy the cut of meat that's on sale for half off?
Because it might still not be the best deal? Even ignoring alternatives, you don't have to buy that cut of beef, if you have to buy beef the $3.79 cut at full price is the better choice if you value cost over quality. Though I prefer to balance quality meat with beans, lentils, TVP, tofu, seitan etc. It's net cheaper and get to have some really good meat without sacrificing nutritional needs.
The whole economy, not certain parts of it. If people in Cuba only buy second hand cars, they still need to import them from the initial buyers. If they have "enough" second hand cars already they will still need to buy new (or from someone who did) parts. If the people make all the parts for their own cars there is no car economy in Cuba, just a market to swap the cars.
An economy of only second hand cars is not exactly possible. And saying that no one chooses to buy a car second-hand tells more about your own preferences than anyone elses.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing, not their users. Unless of course they have started passing through user data in violation of their policies or somesuch problem that any external service is vulnerable to.
2. Evolutionary roles of foodstuffs have little to do with their role in our diet.
No, we don't need to eat wheat (in fact, it's not universal across all humans considering gluten intolerance) but it happens to be what fills the given role in our diet (culturally speaking), milk is no different. And the nutritional requirements of other mammals as a group (cats will not survive on wheat alone, humans might) is not really relevant.
That's not "icing" - it's a symptom that the DE is so unusable for many users that people are spending all their time on "fixes" that they can plug in as "extensions".
VIM and Emacs are unusable, got it. Firefox and Chrome are unusable, got it. Maya and Blender are unusable, totally.
Nope, don't misconstrue my opinions as saying Gnome 3 is necessarily bad. Just not right for people that multitask, switch between tasks frequently, or use a desktop computer most of the time because a tablet isn't functional enough.
Yes, just bad for doing "real work". Not misconstruing, merely bringing it back to the point. I do all of that, drop the elitism. It works, far better then Gnome 2 ever did, just not for everyone (just like Gnome 2 didn't).
I've rebound the right Ctrl on a Model-M even before Gnome 3, good to have to key that almost no application will require to deal with global shortcuts. Now to find an option to reclaim Alt from Gnome 3...
Users are more productive if they have more than one thing on screen at once.
Cite. There are cases were you need additional info to have a task done, but as a blanket statement for productivity in all cases you better back that up.
I need to refer to the info displaying in one window while typing into a different one.
And there's nothing in a proposal for optimizing the workflow with maximized windows and maximizing some apps by default that prevents you from doing so. Gnome 3 already works well for your scenario (I do indeed have a chat window open next to my browser window, at least on the desktop), on the other hand when working on, for example, a large illustration in Inkscape you either have hack your theme to remove the title bar from maximized windows, go fullscreen or deal with the reduced space. And just about anything works better maximized on my netbook, another valid scenario. Neither of those are "simple minded things", just because not every task or scenario is about information overflow doesn't make it simple minded.
This is not about restricting multiwindow capabilities, no reason to just run with whatever bizarre ideas everyone else got by not reading TFA.
I haven't had to do any clicking to launch apps from the search. Super, search, optionally choose right result with arrow keys, enter. Of course I use the shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+T if I don't rebind to Super+T) to launch terminals.
Alternatively you can add them as favorites to the dash by right clicking, then it's as easy as hitting the left corner with your pointer (no need to click) and clicking the icon in the dash.
If you really want them on the top bar (or really any other non-standard functionality) check the extensions, I haven't looked for a launcher one but it's quite possible it exists.
So, no matter what, with weeks of working with it and reading docs and tweaking what I can it STILL requires more mouse movements, clicks, and/or keystrokes to accomplish the same tasks (compared to Gnome 2, XFCE, and even Windows).
Not for me it doesn't, so where does that leave us?
Yea, sure, it's "pretty". Not willing to sacrifice productivity for "pretty", I guess it's just not for me.
It's not pretty, most of the time it's a black bar at the top of the screen. I don't like the shell because it's "pretty", I like it because it's out of the way when I interacts with apps and provides and integrated window management/application starting interface when I'm doing that.
Launching a new terminal window. G2: keyboard shortcut. G3: keyboard shortcut.
Switching windows, the mouse way. G2: try to decipher the right one in the tasklist, carefully aim for it, click. G3: fling the mouse into the left corner, decipher the right one in the window grid, carefully aim for it, click. On the downside I have an extra (very easy, huge target, can't miss it) fling, on the upside I don't have to have another panel to keep the tasklist somewhat readable.
Switching windows, the keyboard way. G2: alt-tab trough long list of windows. G3: alt-tab through apps alt-~ through app windows, I really prefer this to a long list of terminal windows no matter what I'm looking for (there's alt-esc or an extension if that's more your cup of tea). G3 alternatively: the mouse way via keyboard, something that there wasn't an option for in G2.
Running apps. G2 stock: dig trough menu, click. G3: Press super, type in the first two to four letter of the name.
The Gnome 3 way is about the same effort for me, but with less Gnome in my way. The fact that there are more easily installable extensions for the Shell then the respective portions of Gnome 2 got over it's entire live span is just icing. It's fine it it's not for you, but that doesn't mean it's bad which is an important distinction to make. For some reason though folks ranting about Gnome 3 feel the need to make it bad, not just not right for them.
Try comparing Chrome's addon development to the Firefox SDK. Traditional XUL addons are done at a much lower level, this does bring complexity but also power. Though not everyone needs that power, hance the SDK.
I tried the Gnome "2" fork MATE, but still no power management tool, however I was able to add shortcuts to the desktop (which were retained when I logged back in under Gnome 3).
It toggled the switch to let Nautilus render the desktop. No magic there, if you toggle the swtich yourself Gnome 3 will behave the old way and you can scuttle windows out of the way every time you want to launch a program.
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You would expect that in a place where things are assembled completely by hand and the employees aren't allowed to talk. Whether that makes it a good environment is a different question.
A 1900x1200 display is widescreen. Not all widescreens are 16:9, but they are all wider than 4:3.
Got it, targeted ads you don't want are detestable, targeted ads you do are not. Great reasoning.
Because it might still not be the best deal? Even ignoring alternatives, you don't have to buy that cut of beef, if you have to buy beef the $3.79 cut at full price is the better choice if you value cost over quality. Though I prefer to balance quality meat with beans, lentils, TVP, tofu, seitan etc. It's net cheaper and get to have some really good meat without sacrificing nutritional needs.
The whole economy, not certain parts of it. If people in Cuba only buy second hand cars, they still need to import them from the initial buyers. If they have "enough" second hand cars already they will still need to buy new (or from someone who did) parts. If the people make all the parts for their own cars there is no car economy in Cuba, just a market to swap the cars.
An economy of only second hand cars is not exactly possible. And saying that no one chooses to buy a car second-hand tells more about your own preferences than anyone elses.
Brand recognition is also about trust.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing, not their users. Unless of course they have started passing through user data in violation of their policies or somesuch problem that any external service is vulnerable to.
I'll take a clear statement of the applicable taxes before reaching the register, preferably upon entry for a start.
No, we don't need to eat wheat (in fact, it's not universal across all humans considering gluten intolerance) but it happens to be what fills the given role in our diet (culturally speaking), milk is no different. And the nutritional requirements of other mammals as a group (cats will not survive on wheat alone, humans might) is not really relevant.
The thing about grains is that it's they evolved specifically to grow into plants.
Calcium and B12 at the very least.
Well, you'd have to go there and convince them to talk about it...
Gotcha, I tend to use Ctrl+Tab or Alt+number.
I give up, what do those do?
VIM and Emacs are unusable, got it. Firefox and Chrome are unusable, got it. Maya and Blender are unusable, totally.
Yes, just bad for doing "real work". Not misconstruing, merely bringing it back to the point. I do all of that, drop the elitism. It works, far better then Gnome 2 ever did, just not for everyone (just like Gnome 2 didn't).
I've rebound the right Ctrl on a Model-M even before Gnome 3, good to have to key that almost no application will require to deal with global shortcuts. Now to find an option to reclaim Alt from Gnome 3...
Cite. There are cases were you need additional info to have a task done, but as a blanket statement for productivity in all cases you better back that up.
And there's nothing in a proposal for optimizing the workflow with maximized windows and maximizing some apps by default that prevents you from doing so. Gnome 3 already works well for your scenario (I do indeed have a chat window open next to my browser window, at least on the desktop), on the other hand when working on, for example, a large illustration in Inkscape you either have hack your theme to remove the title bar from maximized windows, go fullscreen or deal with the reduced space. And just about anything works better maximized on my netbook, another valid scenario. Neither of those are "simple minded things", just because not every task or scenario is about information overflow doesn't make it simple minded.
This is not about restricting multiwindow capabilities, no reason to just run with whatever bizarre ideas everyone else got by not reading TFA.
I haven't had to do any clicking to launch apps from the search. Super, search, optionally choose right result with arrow keys, enter. Of course I use the shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+T if I don't rebind to Super+T) to launch terminals.
Alternatively you can add them as favorites to the dash by right clicking, then it's as easy as hitting the left corner with your pointer (no need to click) and clicking the icon in the dash.
If you really want them on the top bar (or really any other non-standard functionality) check the extensions, I haven't looked for a launcher one but it's quite possible it exists.
GP specifically disclaimed that it's not about one thing.
Not for me it doesn't, so where does that leave us?
It's not pretty, most of the time it's a black bar at the top of the screen. I don't like the shell because it's "pretty", I like it because it's out of the way when I interacts with apps and provides and integrated window management/application starting interface when I'm doing that.
The Gnome 3 way is about the same effort for me, but with less Gnome in my way. The fact that there are more easily installable extensions for the Shell then the respective portions of Gnome 2 got over it's entire live span is just icing. It's fine it it's not for you, but that doesn't mean it's bad which is an important distinction to make. For some reason though folks ranting about Gnome 3 feel the need to make it bad, not just not right for them.
Try comparing Chrome's addon development to the Firefox SDK. Traditional XUL addons are done at a much lower level, this does bring complexity but also power. Though not everyone needs that power, hance the SDK.
It toggled the switch to let Nautilus render the desktop. No magic there, if you toggle the swtich yourself Gnome 3 will behave the old way and you can scuttle windows out of the way every time you want to launch a program.
And for many things Gnome 2 didn't have an option. So?