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For me that would be unusable, cluttered desktop, missing icons. For me just a waste of screen space.
How? What makes you think that?
Believe me, it may be good for better sized desktops, but not netbooks as well. Which makes sense, as it's large screens that GNOME Shell is meant for.
On my main rig I have a 22"-monitor, seems large enough to me (although I am thinking about a second monitor). But you will find not one icon on my desktop, I just see not how they can be useful. If I have one or two apps open, they always would be covered, so that I have to move a window to actually click on them. Waste of time and just inconvenient. For my most used applications I have quickstart-buttons in my panel, and keyboard shortcuts set up (on my keyboards the Windows-keys have a function). For the apps I use more seldom, I use the menu.
May be it is just me (and I stated already, that would be unusable for me), but I don't see the point in that whole Unity/Gnome Shell thing. I like to work with a classical desktop. And if you want to see how to utilize a large screen to its full extent, just try awesome wm, dwm, ion, or any other tiling wm. Some of them can even be integrated into Gnome.
But as already said, just my
On my main rig I have a 22"-monitor, seems large enough to me (although I am thinking about a second monitor). But you will find not one icon on my desktop, I just see not how they can be useful. If I have one or two apps open, they always would be covered, so that I have to move a window to actually click on them. Waste of time and just inconvenient. For my most used applications I have quickstart-buttons in my panel, and keyboard shortcuts set up (on my keyboards the Windows-keys have a function). For the apps I use more seldom, I use the menu.
May be it is just me (and I stated already, that would be unusable for me), but I don't see the point in that whole Unity/Gnome Shell thing. I like to work with a classical desktop. And if you want to see how to utilize a large screen to its full extent, just try awesome wm, dwm, ion, or any other tiling wm. Some of them can even be integrated into Gnome.
But as already said, just my
First of all, those are not desktop icons. Here's the desktop:
The screenshot I showed you before was of the Applications section of the Overview.
Secondly, the Favorites *are* the most used applications in GS, since they are pinned by the user.
Thirdly, you can easily manage all your open windows from the Overview, the screenshot I already showed you, under the Windows tab.
The screenshot I showed you before was of the Applications section of the Overview.
Secondly, the Favorites *are* the most used applications in GS, since they are pinned by the user.
Thirdly, you can easily manage all your open windows from the Overview, the screenshot I already showed you, under the Windows tab.
Do you say I have to do more than one click to open my favourite apps? Inconvenient.
And why should I need a tab to manage my windows? I use virtual desktops, and I know on which desktop is which window, just because I have placed them there. So what use has an overview-tab?
But don't let us argue anymore about this, I just don't see the point in this Gnome Shell/Unity interfaces, and I doubt that arguing will change my mind here.
Besides being a completely NSFW and pointless site, the wallpapers section at 4chan does actually have some cool stuff, but yea you might wanna wait till you're home to browse THAT particular site as well, .
Mentally noted, I will definitely check it out. And I take pride in my desktop because I put a lot of work and effort into the scripts and the setup of conky. Took me a while.....
I currently have the most boring desktop in the world-- Gnome + openbox, default Clearlooks theme. It does look better than Metacity without Gnome, which is what I was running for a while. I must be confused.
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