Gnome Shell, it's not that bad

Screenshot from 2013-04-17 13:48:56

I still remember when Gnome SHELL had just come out, it was version 3, nice concept, horrible performance, default appearance, quite ugly. I remember that at that time, Unity had also just come out, which was the opposite, beautiful appearance, but painful performance, with things like the dock getting stuck and you couldn't hide it anymore.

It was like this, that I ended up for more than a year, being KDE users, until two weeks ago. Then I had my encounter with Sabayon, where I found peace, but for some unknown reason, I ended up downloading the GNOME ISO, I suppose perhaps because of the boredom that using KDE already caused me.

Clearly Gnome, has taken a leap into the void and probably the culprits over the years have been them and the boredom caused by the environment, reminds me of people who continue to use windows xp, because they do not like 7 etc.

Productivity is a term that has been used a lot to disqualify GNOME 3, but this term is very subjective, there are people for whom fluxbox is the most productive environment, others who think it is KDE SC, others XFCE etc, that's why I don't think that in this case, it could be said that GNOME SHELL is not a productive environment.

Over time I have been learning that everything is a matter of trying things for a while and getting used to them, that is how, for example, I am able to be just as productive using KDE SC, as using openbox and GNOME SHELL is no exception.

The first thing that always touches me, is to realize that the default appearance of this DE has always been grotesque, well it was also in GNOME 2 "bare", but it is nothing that cannot be fixed with two clicks. I downloaded the Faenza icon pack, and the Elegance theme and voila.

Then the most difficult thing came, last week, I had to do a marketing research work, I had 4 windows open, one for a pdf, another for the Writer, another for the browser and another for another pdf, everything was a mess, Changing windows became crazy for me, and a job that I could do in two hours, it took me 3, but two days later I did another job again and I realized that I was getting used to the environment, and that it was getting more and more fast and productive with it.

Screenshot from 2013-04-17 13:49:40

Then, I thoroughly tested the nvidia drivers, as you will see in the screenshots, I have installed with Playonlinux, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Diablo 3 and Assasins Creeds, being totally surprised at how well the environment behaved, I put test the resolution change in the games and I could see how once I left the game the environment was still in its native resolution, which in KDE SC of Chakra if it happened, but the taskbar, was re-dimensioned being super small, as compressed .

I put the flash to the test to see if it had tearing, and nothing perfect, so I appreciate the work that GNOME is doing with Mutter, that although this composer does not have as much eye candy as Compiz or KWin, which it does well. (as long as you don't use amd)).

The environment has become very stable, compared to the last time I had tried it, the times of GNOME 3.2, I have not had any crashes since I installed it, everything has been simplified, but hey, with GNOME tweak tool, there are things like buttons close minimize etc, which can be put back, and there are many things that can be easily changed. Also changing themes is quite easy, just leave them at home, .themes and that's it.

Work area 1_001

The ease of finding extensions was also interesting to me, for example I use the extension for Mpris 2, which allows me to control practically all the players, from the audio menu.

Many of you will wonder, why all this ..., and the answer is simple, I have seen many bad comments about GNOME SHELL, and each one can have their opinion, it would only be missing more, but at the same time I wonder, if those who have tested, they have been more than a week with it.

I can say that GNOME SHELL, is not as bad as if it tries to make believe, and that I am looking forward to the 3.8, it enters the Sabayon repositories. With all conviction I can say that there is no bad environment, nor less productive in Linux, because productivity depends on you and your adaptation to that environment, Unity, KDE SC, Gnome SHELL, XFCE, LXDE, WM, all they are good environments, everything depends on you.

For this reason, I ask more than one who can, wants and has time, to give this environment one more taste, but clearly in a distro that takes better care of it, such as Opensuse, Fedora or Sabayon.

Greetings.


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  1.   elruiz1993 said

    I agree with the post, I like it precisely because it is completely different from anything we have used for years, and with a few modifications it becomes an elegant environment. Although to tell the truth I liked the 3.4 more than the 3.6, I will try the 3.8 later. Cheers

  2.   Hang1 said

    The worst wallpaper ever. Override any opinion you may have, about anything.

    1.    pandev92 said

      The girl is 19 years old, where is the problem? (And I am 20)

      1.    Hang1 said

        It has nothing to do with the age of the young lady.
        The WP is horrendous nothing more. 😀

        1.    pandev92 said

          AHhh okay, that's something else xD

  3.   Computer Guardian said

    I chose to adopt him back in 2011 and I am still with him.

    I admit that its handling is strange at first, but today, when I have to use a Gnome2, I discover that it seems archaic to me and is not as comfortable as my "new" environment.

    I suppose it is a matter of both personal tastes and / or preferences and of accepting to face our «brush with change»

    1.    pandev92 said

      Exactly, after all, it's all a matter of taste and knowing how to adapt 🙂

  4.   astolfo said

    appointment:
    "But at the same time I wonder if those who have tried it have been with it for more than a week."

    Of course not. Test things thoroughly before criticizing them? Ha, you're crazy, here people try it for a couple of hours at most and ale, to criticize.

    1.    clown said

      I see that you do not know the test plans, where you plan a group of tasks to perform and the results that you would expect to obtain.

  5.   Rolo said

    I have been a gnome3 user since it came to debian testing and the truth is that today I cannot complain, although at the time it took me a lot to adapt, especially to the menu, with the giant icons.

    On an aesthetic level it seems great to me, the graphic performance is very good as well as the consumption of ram is not exacerbated considering that it is a desktop that in itself uses graphic effects, such as transparencies, shadows, etc (613MB with iceweasel open ). In addition, with the extensions, several shortcomings of configuration options can be supplied.

    I think that the real problem with gnome is in the medium and long term due to the policy of the developers with the issue of backward compatibility of gtk3 and its lack of complete information (manuals etc), which will ultimately make many developers migrate or create your programs in qt which sooner or later will end up making gnome irrelevant.

    Hopefully these GNOME people realize that this policy will not bring them to fruition and shed that pride that characterizes them to start listening to what users and developers want, although from what you see this will not happen in the immediate. : /

  6.   guizans said

    I've been using it since version 3.0 in Fedora and have always found it fast and very productive. What is clear is that what you need are new icons since the ones it brings by defects are horrible, but hey, that is an aesthetic issue, it does not affect performance.
    A greeting.

  7.   Tesla said

    First of all, congratulations on the pandev92 article!

    On Gnome 3, I have used it for about half a year or so. Since I installed Debian by default in the fall of 2011, until I changed it to KDE in the spring of 2012, and I must say that it did not work badly for me. Despite this I did not like it at all, so I understand the comments, always from the argumentation, against Gnome 3, because it is a quite big change in terms of desktop. As you point out in the article, I think there are more productive environments.

    Leaving aside the issues of libraries, backward compatibility, etc. to computer science, I will leave my opinion about why I left Gnome 3 in favor, first of KDE, and then of XFCE (in which I plan to continue for a long time to be the most similar to Gnome 2 currently):

    In my day to day, I have to deal with emacs to write things in LaTeX, gnuplot, pdf viewer, some spreadsheet, Mathematica, etc. Normally I have two desks with all this, in one I do calculations and in another I write documents. Therefore, after having done this with Gnome 3 I can say that what costs me XFCE in XFCE, in Gnome 3 it cost me twice as much. Maybe it was because of the interface or due to lack of getting used to it, I don't know. However, the same thing happened to me on Mac back in 2010. I didn't feel comfortable with it and simple tasks like editing a file with data cost me more.

    That is my personal experience. I have used Gnome 3, and, for my needs, it is not recommended at all. However, I recognize that for a domestic user who can use his PC for office automation, browsing, etc. Gnome 3 is a very good option.

    In conclusion, I think that the GNU / Linux community should stop being silly bullshit and fighting. Obviously each person has their tastes, and what may seem unproductive to me to another may seem like the desk where they can more easily carry out their work.

    Finally and as an example, I think that although many of us do not like the direction that Canonical is taking with Ubuntu, we must not forget that many users who use Linux for the first time do so with this distribution and today they fill communities with other distros. As is my case.

    Sorry about the brick! A greeting!

  8.   lawliet said

    It's a good desk, but I can't easily hold my attention and thanks to Arch and Fluxbox I don't have so many distracting items.

    1.    lawliet said

      I meant Openbox

  9.   somarropelejo said

    «... that there is no bad environment, nor less productive in Linux, because productivity depends on you and your adaptation to that environment, Unity, KDE SC, Gnome SHELL, XFCE, LXDE, WM, all are good environments, all up to you ."
    Indeed everything depends on the adaptation of each one. Gnome Shell still has a way, remember kde 4 in its beginnings it was very criticized, it was very unstable etc but you see it has become a very stable environment. Gnome Shell with the «tweak tool» you can give it a personalized touch, leaving an environment with minimalist and functional touches at the same time. What is somewhat pointed is the fact that current versions are not compatible with the previous ones, let's remember all the mess that has formed with Cinnarch and Manjaro for not continuing with cinnamon ...
    A hundred and fifty I like Gnome Shell has a "I don't know that ..." That I like, and those who still doubt to dare and give a second chance. I will install the new Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 (currently I have ubuntu remix 12.10) that already comes by default this desktop with this "flavor".
    One question can you upgrade to Gnome-Shell 3.8 on Fedora 18?

    All the best

    1.    Juan Carlos said

      "One question, can you upgrade to Gnome-Shell 3.8 on Fedora 18?" Nope, you can't, you're going to have to wait for F-19.

      regards

    2.    Ankh said

      You can compile it with jhbuild; although perhaps by the time it ends, the fedora 19 XD will be released. Not really, I never compiled gnome outside of gentoo, so I can't tell if it gives a lot of trouble. In principle it will ask you for gtk 3.8, and that could break some apps compiled against gtk 3.6, so you would also have to recompile them to re-establish dynamic links, and then cross your fingers because there are no incompatibilities.

      1.    Juan Carlos said

        From what people from Fedora told me, it's a disgrace to do it and it always ends up breaking.

        «It would be a problem to compile and install it. In all likelihood, at the time the installation was completed, they would have had another release point ”they replied.

        They comment that in OpenSuse 12.3 you can.

        1.    peterczech said

          Hello Juan Carlos.
          at the end I went from Fedora Gnome to Fedora KDE. Suffered from falls from time to time or shell freezes. In Fedora KDE I'm happy and now I'm working with Kubuntu 12.04.2 LTS which is doing quite well 🙂

          regards

          1.    pandev92 said

            When I tried fedora gnome, it hadn't gone too well, really.

          2.    Juan Carlos said

            Hi. Me waiting for Centos 7… .hehe. I am trying to cure myself of the Fedorian versionitis, and now verifying, as always, that my% & $ # »Lenovo gets along better with Windows than with Linux ..

          3.    pandev92 said

            What hardware do you have? Versionitis is bad for the pc in terms of performance sometimes.

          4.    Juan Carlos said

            @ pandev92: It's a G470, Intel B940, Intel HD3000 Graphics. ´The two distros that run best on it are Fedora and OpenSuse, the first one better. Ubuntu 12.04, which was my option for LTS, freezes my system due to the Sandy Bridge issue and the kernel that does not support it.

            Likewise, it is not so much the team, but what I have to work with. I'll see when I can change a couple of peripherals, like the busted Epson printer for an HP. Anyway, my Windows 7 is not pirated, so you can imagine that I am not going to waste $$$$, I'm not sooo a fan to do that, and also, as I said, it works very well on this laptop.

            regards

          5.    pandev92 said

            Well, the intel hd3000, the truth is quite bad ... normal that windows do better, the driver is more optimized, the intel starts to be good from 4000 in my opinion, besides that windows requires less graphic power ...

  10.   xykyz said

    I have used it for 6 months and at first I was comfortable, but for some reason the last month I started to want to change my desk and it no longer convinced me and from what I have read out there I am not the only one to whom something has happened So.
    In a few months I await your opinion on gnome again 😛

    1.    pandev92 said

      we will see XD, I hope I have already left the stage of the distroshop xd

  11.   rots87 said

    many of the complaints that come from G3, at least in my case, is its difficulty of customization with respect to themes vs KDE. What about the extensions they have in G3 is true, it is the easiest to put on and use but I want to change themes in G3 such as changing clothes easy, comfortable and fast.

    In my case, I tried G1 for 3 month or so but I didn't know how to adapt correctly since I always compare it with the facilities in other things that KDE has and that I feel more productive.

    The G3 can be good and productive for some, but with a slightly longer adaptation curve than other environments and that can be annoying, in addition to the fact that in each G3 update the extensions in many cases stop working because they are no longer compatible and you have to wait a long time for them to be resolved.

    I do not criticize the environment but rather that it is more difficult for me to keep it up to date with when you have to update or something similar

    However I like how GTK applications look in their environment hahaha in that if I applaud G3 that has nothing to envy in appearance to QT applications 😛

    I said hehehe

  12.   lawliet said

    Maybe the girl in your background does not have the best smile, but who is, in the second image they look good.

    1.    pandev92 said

      tomoe yamanaka ehhee :), is a japanese idol xd

  13.   hug0 said

    It's a matter of taste, I tried to use it and I could only get until the tenth day and I couldn't anymore haha.

    I like classic environments like MATE or Xfce better.

  14.   jorgemanjarrezlerma said

    How about pandev92.

    I totally agree with you, the DE or WM in Linux / Unix are diverse and with different approaches and that is one of the virtues of the Linux and Unix world. As they say out there, taste breaks down into genres and I think that saying whether it is good or bad is as baroque as arguing which came first, the chicken or the egg.

    On my desktop I have Arch with XFCE, on an HP Mini 110 Arch Netbook with GNOME Shell, another Acer with Ubuntu LTS and a clutter with Arch with OpenBox. The truth is that I feel comfortable in all of them, but GNOME is my favorite (a matter of taste and nothing else).

    P.S. I use my current laptop with Windows 8 for reasons of warranty and battery life. I plan to change it but I will not do it until I find a good configuration that does not damage me or shorten the battery life and this in Linux although it is possible, if it is quite entertaining. In fact with Windows it lasts 5 hours and with Linux only 2 and the truth is the difference is a lot.

  15.   eliotime3000 said

    [YaoMing] I that you put Nana Mizuki as wallpaper [/ YaoMing].

    Anyway, the joke is in the habit and for the long-term objectives that GNOME 3 has, since if you do not agree (and less to that wallpaper), you can choose XFCE and / or LXDE (especially, for the windowsers).

    For now, I'll wait until Debian Stable updates so I can put MATE and / or LXDE into it (the custom, the custom everywhere).

  16.   Jose said

    Little Lupe ?. Yes ... Gnome Shell is getting more and more cool.

    1.    pandev92 said

      Do you know her: O?

  17.   emther said

    Something similar happened to some of them. With the arrival of Ubuntu 11.04 I got Gnome 3, I could never use it because of the few features of the computer it had. I recently bought a better feature and installed Debian ... uff, how easy it was for me to switch screens, handle everything I needed with just a few clicks, I don't know, it just fascinated me. Too bad Debian runs 3.4 because 3.8 looks more than great.
    By the way, I was thinking of doing a similar article, because for years I read pests and evils of Gnome Shell and it ended -for me- as something great.

    Greetings.

  18.   le_lefty said

    For me the problem is no longer gnome-shell, but the increasingly scarce number of nautilus functions, a problem that in fact also carries over to the next version of ubuntu

  19.   VulkHead said

    It's a good environment, but as soon as you put in the enhancement extensions it gets unnecessarily slow.

    1.    msx said

      It uses JavaScript everywhere ...

      1.    pandev92 said

        The problem itself is not that, it is like everything, many extensions are not optimized, it is the same that happened with firefox extensions in the past.

    2.    guillermoz0009 said

      I do not share that experience, the truth works very well for me.

  20.   msx said

    My GNOME3 liked it from the beginning, although like all GNOME, especially its applications, I always found it quite bare; also the new version is unconfigurable. Ok, it is in a serious development stage, but the extensions that worked for you in one version stop working in another, there is no way to have fine control over the desktop and also as I said the GNOME applications

    1.    msx said

      traditionally they lack the functionality of KDE applications.

      However GNOME Shell has some good ideas that I incorporated into my KDE desktop as corner hotspots, which have been a part of KDE for a long time.

      Shell is still very green, you have to give it time.

  21.   Germany said

    I agree, it's just a matter of getting used to it to realize how practical it is. You can have terminals, translators, search in google in a very fast way. by means of extensions.

  22.   itachi said

    you can't use compiz ergo I'm not interested; compiz is still unsurpassed, I have not seen anything that overshadows it yet

    1.    BishopWolf said

      well you should try kde with all its graphic effects

  23.   clown said

    I didn't like Gnome shell at first when I tried it on Ubuntu, but when using ElementaryOS I liked how Gnome Shell is configured.
    The only criticism I would make is "we need to make the configuration easier, as it was in gnome2"

  24.   guillermoz0009 said

    According to the post, I started using Gnome Shell from the beginning and I was decided by stability.

    But today is my # 2 favorite desktop, second only to Cairo Dock. (I'm changing one and the other so as not to get bored)

    For me it is the most productive desktop, the keyboard shortcuts make browsing and work fast (you just need to learn them) dynamic desktops are a marvel that does not exist in any other environment, the extensions are very good, the only "but" that you I put it is the lack of effects, but for those who use their PC to DO IT and not to admire the desktop effects I think it is the best environment. XD.

    Greetings.

  25.   Germany said

    I agree, once you get used to it (and it's for a short time). turns out to be very practical. especially when extensions are added. such as dropdown terminal, translate text from shell, google from shell, install apps from overview. to mention just a few. gnome turns out to be very very practical

  26.   itachi said

    Of course, yes, an environment where everything is imposed, for example having to use mutter for the hell of it, Kde has kwin but it lets you use the composer that you want, that's freedom and gnome is taking it all away. It looks more and more like macs and wins, and Gnu / linux is the work of ellección; at least I think so

    1.    pandev92 said

      I doubt that there is some crazy person who changes kwin for compiz ..., unless they like some special effect, compiz is much more unstable than kwin xddd, and honestly, if they have chosen to force mutter, it will be because mutter only fulfilled what they needed.

      1.    itachi said

        I don't know where the compiz instability is, I've never really run into it. And things as they are, compiz has better performance than kwin, the latter I have used and it hits more than my grandfather's car, it has zero fluidity

        Also since gnome shell is nothing more than a crude copy of mission control and the mac launchpad could have left it like this, that is, one more application without removing the rest of the environment, if you want you can use it and if not, no

        1.    pandev92 said

          Well, just go to google and you will know how unstable compiz is, :) especially 0.9

  27.   st0rmt4il said

    As you say, it is a matter of taste and / or customs!

    I have used Gnome Shell in Fedora 18 and Sabayon as well but, as my personal taste is to have a minimalist desktop, I opt for LXDE, or Openbox.

    Good tip!

    Regards!

  28.   jamin samuel said

    "It was all a mess, changing windows became crazy for me"

    And well that's the ONLY thing that I openly criticize Gnome Shell .. that's why with XFCE I'm faster than using Gnome Shell

    Everything else is fine, the environment is wonderful, even though I'm in XFCE, I install "gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor, eog, gedit, nautilus"

  29.   Hades said

    Gnome 3 with its shell is the same as having windows 8, only it is more minimalist.

  30.   elav said

    Let's see .. Very nice shell, lots of cash and trash .. Ok, but I wonder, when we go from the desktop to using the GNOME tools. So what? Gedit is still a mess, totem not to mention, web is on the right track thanks to webkit but come on, it lacks a lot .. Anyway.

    1.    pandev92 said

      Man if we get like that, dragon player is a plasta xD that neither subtitles apart you can choose, konqueror is a crappy browser, amarok is very heavy etc etc, and in the end you end up installing smplayer, clementine, chrome etc xD

      Gedit is a mess? there are no other editors in gtk +, is totem a mess? install gnome mplayer, web is not so good? install chrome, firefox, opera ...
      rhythmbox is a sh ...? calmly install xnoise, beatbox, sonata etc xDDD

      The applications of the environment are the least, the first thing I remove.

      1.    elav said

        I was talking about the project's own applications, because I also install VLC, SMPlayer ... etc. And look at you, I still have a much nicer desktop than Gnome Shell and that consumes less .. HAHAHA, but as we say here: Matter of taste .. 😛

        Edito: And when we talk about Nautilus, what do you do? What do you install?

        1.    pandev92 said

          nautilus? I have never changed it, I don't need more than one file browser, just like in dolphin, all I do is open files and sometimes use the search option, I don't need more.

  31.   Rolo said

    che totem is good and gedit is an excellent editor, you can put plugins among many other things
    a video to learn gedit
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1c_MWd3zI

  32.   staff said

    Gnome Shell, it's not that bad ... but it's not the best XD
    To choose which DE we want to use, subjective factors, aesthetics, ease of use, etc. come into play.
    But to define which is better or worse (very ambiguous terms, by the way) we must consider the things that we can moderately measure, such as the CUSTOMIZATION capacity (there will be those who debate this saying that not everyone can customize their DE the same, but the question is, that the options are or are not, invariably whether the user knows how to use them or not.)
    PERFORMANCE.
    MODULARITY (This goes hand in hand with performance).
    COMPATIBILITY (with other architectures, the world of existing distros, other DEs, the same DE in earlier and later versions).
    And since we are in the FOSS universe, also consider how the project goes with the user and developer communities.
    Surely I forget more things, but considering these and looking for a balance between them, I suppose there is no doubt that DE takes the crown.

    Unity !!!

    Joke joke!

    If after considering these things and for sheer pleasure a DE that is not "the best" is preferred, the decision is completely respectable, as it is made on tastes and not absurd fanaticisms based on advertising, ignorance (of the benefits of the other options ) or mere custom.

    1.    pandev92 said

      Being the most complete and customizable does not make it the best, mac osx is not the most customizable, but many prefer it, because it fulfills what people need, stability. performance and eye candy, all other things, are things for power users.

      1.    staff said

        "Being the most complete and customizable does not make it the best,"

        I said: performance, modularity, compatibility, and relationship with the communities, and with them seek a balance. At no time did I mention "complete"

        "Mac osx is not the most customizable, but many prefer it"

        Mark the limits of my comment within the FOSS universe, although just as many prefer something does not make it better (if we are objective and see general and non-specific cases).

        “Because it meets what people need, stability. performance and eye candy, »

        Clarify that subjective questions are not valid in determining the overall benefits of a DE, and that is not the same as choosing one for your own use. By the way, I am people and KDE offers me performance, stability and eye candy (and much more).

        *Analogy:
        If we want to know if in general natural orange juice is better than Coca-Cola, we see the physical and economic advantages and a long etc. that they bring us and we conclude that the juice is better.
        Maybe someone is allergic to orange, where they live they cannot have access to it, or they simply do not like the taste, but those are specific cases and / or based on subjective issues, but the juice is still better.

        If after knowing this, there are those who prefer to drink Coca-Cola instead of juice (sometimes I do) the decision is respectable, but if it is because of:
        I quote myself (go ego XD) «absurd fanaticisms based on advertising, ignorance (of the benefits of the other options) or mere habit.»
        It may be at best a tolerable decision.

        1.    pandev92 said

          Just search a bit for launchpad, in the compiz 0.9 bugtracker, and you will know. And with nvidia they have a bug for months that causes the window to go black sometimes.

          1.    staff said

            XD That comment didn't go here, right?

        2.    pandev92 said

          Man if you prefer orange juice to coca cola, there you xD, coca cola is a thousand times better xddd, orange is disgusting xD and is acidic, you have to add half a kilo of sugar XD

          1.    staff said

            hahaha Exactly, those are the attitudes I was talking about, you will have noticed them repeatedly in fanboys of some distros.

  33.   JL said

    Hello! I wanted to share with you that my experience with Gnome-Shell is VERY POSITIVE. And all for a simple possibility that it offers. I know that it is not expressly what comes by default, but ... your website with extensions! It's a fantastic thing. I put 12 extensions and I have a VERY CUSTOMIZED desktop and very agile when it comes to accessing both places and applications. When it is said that there is little customization… take a look at the extensions! In addition, they are ordered from highest to lowest popularity.

    Really, I find it VERY PRACTICAL ... once those "tricks" are known.

    Regards!

  34.   Hulk said

    I used gnome 3.6 for about three weeks for a pc that they loaned me at work and I couldn't format it: p

    I was able to get used to its use but it did not convince me, the lack of customization is the first point against it, you cannot easily change things such as the position of the close, minimize buttons, etc. to the left of the windows or the hot corner as in KDE.

    Also, the main problem that I find for which I say that I am more productive in kde is Dolphin. I didn't find any file explorer in gnome that comes close in performance. For example, fast file filtering with ctrl + 1, file content search, split screen, fast console with f4, integration with git, svn, ssh, etc. among many other things.

    1.    Hulk said

      * fast file filtering with ctrl + i

  35.   FreeBSDDICK. said

    Honestly it has improved a lot .. of course I would not use a complete DE .. but if I recognize that the advance is significant .. I recommend it over that abomination called unity ..

  36.   Federico said

    It doesn't seem like a bad thing to me, but it's nowhere near how good kde is.

  37.   Juanra said

    Since I started in GNU / Linux I have preferred Gnome-GnomeShell, I used Fedora 17 with KDE for a few months and the truth is I liked it but I am not on that desktop I do not know why. Before being a novice (I still am but less than before) I liked GnomeShell but it was missing something that something was a dock but since I no longer plan to use the dock I no longer see it necessary.

  38.   dart said

    Hello for your article!
    I think it is one of the few opinions that are not outright fanaticism.

    on the other hand the gnome and its shell I have always liked!
    customizing is difficult but it is possible, you just need to know a little css and other things.

    the only thing that I don't like about the gnome shell is when dragging a file from nautilus to a window, but nothing that from Open… cannot be solved.

    for the rest I love gnome shell and I adapt very well to it

    I think it is a good option and highly recommended if you are already bored of the classic DE.

  39.   Jose said

    I have always been from Gnome and I think that the change has passed and its most traumatic phase. It is designed to be minimalist and for the use of extensions (with a few you can no longer complain about not being productive, which for example in Unity I can't). For many years we have been hallucinating with things like compiz. But I always had the feeling that these things gave Linux an unprofessional or serious look. All possible configuration, but you saw the screenshots of people's desks…. and there were some jokes. This is the freedom of Linux, but it also came at a price. I made use of all that paraphernalia (I still have some of those horrible screenshots of Gnome 2 with Compiz or tutorials on how to make it work), but to this day, if Gnome follows the path marked, I have no intention of accommodating myself to another desktop, to less on my main computer. Above all the change at the programming level (GTK3 and others) I would highlight the integrating effort that little by little gives Gnome a more sober and professional aspect. I'm talking about your own applications that appear little by little and that over time will save you having to install others that you have been using: Music, Photos, Calendar, Clocks, etc. I am delighted and my medium-term configuration will be: a miniPC with XFCE, for downloads and TV, my laptop as the main computer with Gnome 3 Shell and a Smartphone / Tablet with Android / iOS or whatever comes… for away from home.

  40.   Andresito said

    Gnome 3 not so bad? … Ugh… You didn't just lose a reader by very little.

    1.    pandev92 said

      If by saying what I think, I will lose readers, welcome is that loss 🙂

      1.    Andresito said

        One less then ..

        1.    pandev92 said

          May the Force be with you.

  41.   Tammuz said

    I was with gnome shell for a few months in ubuntu but I returned to unity, I liked it a lot but I fell in love with unity

  42.   Aaron said

    I use it and I like it a lot, it's interesting how
    the project is progressing: D.

    Greetings.

  43.   Jose said

    I use Uuntu-Gnome, but the image doesn't look like it does with Sabayon.

    Another thing for administrators, the images on a tablet are squashed.

    1.    pandev92 said

      Have you put gnome, in the user agent?

      1.    Jose said

        I haven't touched the Chrome, Chromium, or Safari user agent. I have changed it other times, for other things. Chrome allows you to do it without having to install anything ... But I don't know what to add to make the Gnome icon appear.

        1.    Jose said

          From the iPad it works well. From Chromium it is regular. From Chrome it doesn't even come out that I use Ubuntu:

          -iPad: safari + tablet
          -Chromium: chromium + ubuntu + indeterminate image
          -Chrome: chrome + linux

          1.    pandev92 said

            In chrome, you have to use the user agent switcher extension and look for a post here, which talks about how you have to modify it.

          2.    Jose said

            Testing

          3.    Jose said

            Trying again

          4.    pandev92 said

            http://postimg.org/image/497zte6tn/full/

            See how I have it on and make the appropriate modifications.

          5.    Jose said

            Thank you

  44.   shnkr3 said

    could you give me plss>.

    1.    pandev92 said
      1.    shnkr3 said

        You're my idol!!! : D !!! Japanese idols are u-15? idols are so cute

        1.    pandev92 said

          this is 18 years old xddd, but if you want to miss less, google minisuka xD, or jappydolls etc xdddd, all so cute> //

          1.    shnkr3 said

            true> or

  45.   Mariano O. said

    I used it, I'm going to give it a new chance with 3.8.

  46.   jesus perales Israel Martínez said

    I do not know I do not see it bad or bad, I feel that it is what some person needs and can use it, I want to but when developing things in heavy software gnome-shell consumes resources that I cannot waste and I opted for xfce, but gnome shell is Well, although I opt for unity xD, I love the preconfigured shortcuts and in kde I like that touch of elegance and its activities but in itself the interface that I liked the most is unity although I would like to have 4 pc each with xfce, kde , gnome shell and unity

  47.   4ZhaGratH said

    someone knows how to properly install gnome shell 3.8

    regards

  48.   Jose said


    [IMG] http://i.imgur.com/Gt2Gm7q.jpg [/ IMG]
    http://imgur.com/Gt2Gm7q

  49.   Jose said

    In Ubuntu GNOME 13.04, Gnome 3.8 is installed adding the PPA as explained here https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3

    I decided to install it to see what's new (they will appear little by little) and because the 3.6 that comes with Ubuntu 13.04 didn't work very well for me…. The Gnome Shell was moving very slow. Now everything is running smoothly and with a couple of extensions packed by the Gnome team (official)…. my ideal desktop.

  50.   Gurren–Lagan said

    Well, if Gnome shell is not so bad, it just lacks a little more customization, I like it a lot 😀