[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[Richard Faulkner]

Just burned a live disk of F15 and took it for a test drive.  I agree
with Jim...110%.  Gnome3 is Gnot for me in the least.  Why does it seem
that Fedora is taking ques from Canonical?  In my opinion it is way too
geared for a newbie user with limited exposure to M$ and/or too heavy on
the look and feel for a tablet edition.  Rather disappointing on first
look....

First boot wasn't too smooth either.  Likely issues with my dual XFX
6800 GS (SLI) GPUs -- something that F12 had nailed right out of the
box!  I won't even go into the UI.  Couldn't even right-click to change
desktop properties (or did I miss something?)  

Sorry these comments aren't very technical but if first impressions make
lasting opinions...I have a very low opinion of Gnome3 after this first
look.  Hoping the development team gets it together for future releases.

RinL


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] gnome3. I give up.
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:09:41 -0400


On 06/07/2011 05:24 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 12:56 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>> Classic gnome and compiz is what I want and what works for me in this
>> application.  I do coding, website development and graphics on my home
>> system.  Reinventing the wheel is not what I want as a user and member
>> of this community; it's usability and ease of getting what I want from
>> an OS that I can configure to do what I want.  To that end the
>> "classics" worked just fine for me.  But that's just me....RinL
>>
> Not sure where I should jump in on this one, but I haven't seen anyone 
> mention anything about numlock not being set. Should I assume that I'm 
> the only one with not being able to set numlock on? If so can someone 
> enlighten me with a gsetting that would turn it on on logging in as 
> setting it in the gconf editor does not seem to have any impact. I 
> seem to have this nasty habit of using my numeric keypad, forgetting 
> that the annoying trait of not setting numlock on on login in Gnome3 
> which causes weird things to happen. I am really trying to accept 
> change as "change is good",,, isn't it?
Found it. The Fedora Forum didn't have an answer to others that had 
posted with the problem, but did find a post from Jan, 2011 on Ubuntu 
about numlockx (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock) that seems to 
have fixed it.
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