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Originally Posted by gnudude
What makes it so tablet ready? Why do you think they would design for a tablet? I like gnome because it is so perfectly configured for keyboard control. I wouldn't think that would be if it was designed for a tablet.
Maybe it is for advanced users?
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A lot of people like Gnome Shell. I am not one of them. If you like it that is great.
You really should read some on the Gnome website however.
One of the main concerns in the design of GS is to be touch screen friendly. Yes I know there are laptops and monitors for desktops that are touch screens.
Most aren't. Probably won't be for some time to come. This leaves the target for design as phone and tablet use.
The Gnome folks and the Canonical Unity devs like to say this is for "advanced" users. Bullshit. They are both designed for touch screen use.
Tablets are the touch screens targeted. These are not the chosen computing devices selected by most "advanced" users. These are the most popular devices in use by people that want little from the device except the ease of messaging on social media and watching video.
I used GS from late 09 when it became available for testing. Used it for a couple years. For me it simply got worse. I now use Xfce.
For folks that like GS it is probably great. It is more flexible than Unity. I have no idea about W8 as the only place I have seen it is in adds on TV.
It is significant, however, that HP is now offering a deal on new desktop/laptops with W7 instead of W8 because they seemed to run into some consumer problems with W8.
Judging from the ranting and desperate bragging being done about the fine qualities of GS and Unity I would judge that I am far from alone in abandoning Gnome as my desktop. Both Lxde, particularly in the form of Lubuntu, and Xfce seem to be reaping a lot of users from ex-gnome users.
Mate is becoming a very, very competitive DE. While I prefer Xfce I do maintain Mate (Wheezy netinstall with the Mate repo added) for my wife as she really wanted to stick with the old style panel system.
Her reaction to Unity and Gnome Shell was "I don't want that crap on my box." I installed both on an external drive so she could try them out. She is not an advance Linux user. She is an advanced GnuCash user. According to her, after running one and then the other for a week apiece, they simply slow everything down making her do more key strokes and mouse movements.
I found this same thing to be true if trying to edit several images in Gimp. Or creating an image using parts of several other images.
They were so bad for my work flow that I now find that I vastly prefer KDE to Gnome. I have always loathed KDE and still do. You can, however, still have a sane way of dealing with several different windows of one application that does not require movements all over the screen.
I will say, in defense of both Unity and GS, that if using a touch screen I think they would work fine. I use a desktop. I use a vertical monitor. I am not going to be using, for hours, a touch screen with the attendent holding of my arms out in front of me.
Nor am I going to spend thousands of dollars to replace my hardware to use either of them when there are fine DEs that will do the same job on my existing hardware.
