Subj : Confirming Link
To   : Nightfox
From : Psi-Jack
Date : Sun Jul 19 2015 01:12:00

  Re: Confirming Link
  By: Nightfox to Psi-Jack on Fri Jul 17 2015 10:54 pm

 Ps>> To me, Cinnamon is bastardized Gnome 3. They took the good parts of
 Ps>> Gnome 3 and ripped them out and broke it. Specifically things like
 Ps>> per-display virtual dynamic desktops. In Cinnamon, it's now all one
 Ps>> long screen, instead of per screen.

 Ps>> They improved in other areas, I will give them that, but in the
 Ps>> process, they broke what was actually the best feature of Gnome 3.
 Ps>> :) 

 Ni> I've heard that Cinnamon started as a fork of Gnome 2, so that sort of
 Ni> makes sense. So I don't think it's that they "broke" Gnome 3, but rather
 Ni> providing something that some people want. With Gnome 3, I feel like they
 Ni> completely re-did the interface and made it worse. It reminds me somewhat
 Ni> of what Microsoft did with Windows 8 and its new interface - It seems like
 Ni> with Gnome 3, they wanted to make some kind of tablet-esque interface,
 Ni> which isn't what I want on a desktop.

Well, fork of Gnome 3, not 2. MATE is a fork of Gnome 2, basically Gnome 2 on
life support as I've labeled it. hehe

I dunno. I used to utterly hate Gnome 3 when it first came out. Course, mind
you, I hated Gnome in general, never liked Gnome 1 nor 2. I've been a KDE
person a long time for a reason (and still am).

Now, I had a person from Gnome's PR team, after my constant expression of
hatred of it, come to me and told me idealisms behind why they did their design
like they did. I forget exactly what they all were, but they made.... sense...
All of it. He said, try it again for 2 weeks with that mentality in play, and
come back and tell me what you think... Sure enough... I loved it after that 2
weeks, and I actually TRY to make my KDE mimic some of those idealogies even
today, even though KDE can't quite do it all.

Gnome 3, one thing is sure. If you're using it for professionalism, as in, for
a work environment, it for one will let you maintain focus isolation, instead
of spreading focus out onto many different things. It definitely, by design, if
you use it right, can do that one very specific thing well. 

At the same time, it can be a hindrance for similar reasons. But that's a
different issue in itself.

Gnome 3 is certainly better than Unity ever will be, but for me, KDE always
wins. Cinnamon has burned me more than Gnome 3 ever has. 

We'll see what the future has in store next though. :)

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