Hi, I've got some thoughts about gnome 3 fallback mode and.
Since i've got a cheap intel 3150 gma, i cannot wait for the activities overview every time i have to look in my applications menu; if i want to open firefox, it's easy to press super-> type 'f' 'i' 'r' -> press enter, but it takes too much time searching for applications only looking at their large icons. It would be nice to change the way application menu is rendered: for example, if i don't like big icons, why not let me change big icons to small icons or to text only? After all, also windows vista and windows 7 made radical changes, but the user has the _possibility_ to use older windows 98 theme, with the name of running applications written in the taskbar (this is an 'advanced' feature of windows7: if you don't like big icons you can revert to old style, but only if you don't have a netbook/notebook with the terrible win 7 starter, which doesn't even let you change the background: you need at least win7 home). I understand that these changes have been studied and discussed very well and that many hours of work have been put in making the new gnome3, but i'd like to have more chances of customization without relying on some third-party js-like extensions and i know that enhanced customization it's not in the roadmap. So, altough i really like the new Gnome3 design, i switched back to fallback mode since i cannot change things for me important (the taskbar is one of this, the possibility to add new items to the top panel without using an extension is other). Luckily, Fallback mode is like gnome2, but a bit more difficult to use. For example, why do we need to press ALT + right click to open context menu in the panel? Why can't we change desktop background with a simple right click? Why the gnome-config menus have been so simplified that i haven't yet found how to customize keyboard-shortcuts? And so this is my main question: since Gnome3-fallback is 'Gnome2-like, why not simplify the life of those who liked the gnome2 model and would appreciate to have the benefits of new gnome3 infrastructure (it makes no sense to revert to gnome2.32, i think), by making gnome3-fallback more customizable like it was in gnome2? These changes wouldn't affect gnome3 design. It would be like it was some time ago, having gnome2 with or without compiz/3d/etc. Regards, Daniele _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
