Apparently the boys of GNOME They think they already have the perfect Desktop or something because their next goal is to work on improving the design of the applications.
Our goal is to make it faster and less time consuming for people to find content, and we want to provide effective tools for people to get organized. We also want to create tools for content that are in tune with today's users, with things like fast search and cloud integration.
This is how it more or less defines the strategy to follow Allan Day on his blog. In the article, he lets us see how some of the most used applications in GNOME will be, through the images that I share below. All this work, according to Allan, is following these basic principles:
- Provide a fast and efficient search.
- Fit the view with the content type. Music doesn't have to be exactly the same as my documents. For example: it can be optimized for each type of content.
- In most cases (there are some exceptions) the order of the content is according to what was last used. Among other things, this provides a useful function to remember the content in which you might be interested.
- Use a separate view for navigation and display. This efficiently uses screen space and allows the user interface to focus on the task at hand.
- Automatically access content that is stored online (via GNOME Online Accounts). One of the goals behind these apps is that a new user should be able to enter their account details online during initial setup, and immediately have access to all of the content on your cloud.
- Train people to manually tag or organize your content, but don't let the organization become restrictive or burdensome.
- It includes functionality that is relevant to the content type. Do you want to be able to play music and videos, share photos, print documents, and so on?
- Allow users to open your content with specialized applications. While content applications will provide some basic functionality, there will be many cases where someone wants to use a specialized application to work with that content.
- Integrate the application search in the Description of the activities, so that a single search can simultaneously access all the content applications.
And this is the result:
Watch the Original article in English for more information.
I have only known Gnome forever, KDE I have not practically seen it. Now I use Xfce because ubuntu 12.10 is read with unity. Is there any ubuntu with genome? Gubuntu? heh heh
I suppose ubuntu is installed with unity and then gnome and it starts up there or something like that ... right? I would prefer something directly Gnome.
Hello! I think what you are looking for is something like this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10
Greetings!
ostiss !! Thank you very much Heraldo and Fernando !!
I have already put it in favorites of the Chrome cloud and from home I study it to see, we will test a Vbox first.
I said, very friendly. !!
Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10#Download
The Remix they made installs the Ubuntu core and a Gnome optimized for Ubuntu.
If you install regular Ubuntu (or even Lubuntu itself) and want to install Gnome, it doesn't look the same, you can see the difference between Remix with native Gnome and with the "overlay", even if you do a netinstall of Ubuntu and Then you put the Gnome on it, it doesn't look so good either.
And I mention it to you because I already tried all that xD
Great where do I get it for my cell phone ?.
Because what you just showed is not even for a netbook right?
More like the menu of a smartphone or Iphone.
XD
Gnome Shell the perfect desktop?
Tell me another one that laughs me haha [/ nelson simpsons mode]
Gnome Shell is very far from being the perfect desktop, indeed, Gnome Shell is far from being a desktop.
Where is grace? It won't seem perfect to you, but it does to me.
In fact, that is the objective, the Gnome team has been proclaiming it for a long time, from saying that the "desktop is dead" to the path they have been tracing with their project.
It is far from being a desk, and it will get further and further away.
It looks good for my cool ultrabook as well as my tablet; ironic mode = off
P.S. One question, which is the default gnome player Banshee or Rhythmbox. I understand that it has nothing to do with the post. It's just a question that I have
Rhythmbox is the official and default.
Gnome and its shell don't seem like a "perfect" desktop to me at all. I don't like it at all.
Well, my dear Elav, the truth and frankness the perfect desk only exists for the one who meets your needs and feels comfortable in it. All DEs such as KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Razor-QT and GNOME, as well as WMs such as openBOX are very practical, comfortable and if you are like a fish in water, then I repeat that is the perfect desktop.
KDE is incredible, ultra-configurable and beautiful, but it suffers from the same consumption problems as Windows. I know that you can make some adjustments and obtain an excellent environment with reasonably low consumption and if it is what the user expects, then the truth goes without saying.
The XFCE, LXDE and Razor-QT are so to speak the "light" variant of traditional heavyweights or desktops. They are highly customizable and configurable but being based on a WM (except XFCE of course) has certain limitations. Now, XFCE and LXDE are in the dilemma of migration to GTK3 and many developers are still in limbo and are not very willing to do this, unlike Razor-QT since based on QT the guys from these libraries have been dedicated to polish your applications and maintain a consistent and clean ecosystem. Hopefully the developers of applications based on GTK, XFCE and LXDE will make up their minds and take the step that they will inevitably have to take.
GNOME has a lot for and against since certain changes have been too abrupt for many. What must be considered is the criterion of trying to handle an environment "similar" to other platforms such as smartphones. Android and webOS have a resemblance that makes one think. Many will say that there are no phones or tablets with GNOME but it is planned for that. Imagine the advantage of having a similar interface on your desktop, laptop, tablet and telephone; even the slowest would have a minimal learning curve and with the advantage that they would be familiar with the interface.
Other members of the community and I myself have posted topics regarding trends, I don't know if these will be fulfilled, but this seems to be the way. Closed environments like Apple and now Microsoft are trying to implement desktops (so to speak) with an interface that is practically the same or as similar as possible and the objective of this is to take advantage of the boom in mobile devices to capture the largest possible market with a minimal learning curve. KDE continues in the line of the traditional desktop and for the moment in the 4.x series it will continue like this. It has variants for netbook and tablet but these have not finished fitting and be a serious alternative to be considered by manufacturers.
The effort made by Intel and HP (to mention a few) as in the case of webOS or Mozilla with their operating system and Android on the other hand, give the certainty that the interfaces will tend to be similar sooner or later. Although the PC will continue and will be (in my personal opinion) the center of the ecosystem, it will have to undergo some changes to better integrate with the other elements of the ecosystem and at the moment only 1 desktop has taken that path.
As in everything, this is mere speculation and personal appreciation, but the truth and reality is that all Linux distros live on income, either by donation or because they have a business model like Cannonical, Novell, RedHat, etc. so they have to take into account market trends. For example, if you go and buy a Scanner or any device, you have to verify that we can install it without much problem in our distros and sometimes it is not possible.
Unfortunately for some and fortune for others, the bulk of computer users (eye computers) is somewhat neophyte and does not have much desire to learn more than what helps them get the job. On the other hand, if we put a mobile phone, things change. And as Cantinflas would say, there is the detail.
Thanks for the analysis JorgeManjarrezLerma.
The Razor-QT desk I write it down to investigate.
I don't know if it has always been like that, and I didn't realize it. But it seems like the linux world has been bubbling a lot lately with a thousand simultaneous transitions. In the end the branches are going to separate so much that they are going to be different trees ... Anyway, I get lost in so many acronyms and their implications in the development of the distros.
Great reasoning. I think we share a hobby that I have abandoned, Amateur Radio.
About the GNU / Linux world, I think the same. The nature of Free Software is like that, but I don't know where so much division is going to take us. In that sense I am quite conservative, that does not mean that I am against new projects, but I am not carried away by the impulse or the novelty of more of the same or very similar.
I think GNU / Linux already offers alternatives a la carte. Keep dividing is not good, a subject that deserves our reflection ...
Greetings.
73 then !!
Strongly agree with you. Nothing extra to contribute 😉
At first glance it looks elegant, the problem will be if it is installed on a Netbook or not so modern equipment if gnome would be slow 🙁
I have it installed on a hp mini 110 netbook and my little girl on an Acer ONE AD250. From what I can tell you, it works very well.
Tastes are taste
I LOVE GNOME!!!
And here's everyone commenting on the perfect desktop when the main thing slips away: Applications are changing. At least I would like to use the player and the photo viewer.
By the way, this is the only and last time you will see me comment from Windows.
Don't get uptight man heh heh I do it sometimes, depending on what machine I'm on, and nobody has ever told me anything.
I hope so…. 😉
every day I like gnome shell more 🙂
Being a die-hard KDE user, I'm gnomizing a bit with Fedora, and I understand their minimalist philosophy, what the gnome guys are trying to do. The truth is close to the perfect desktop for what you get.
I don't know if the perfect desktop, but being a long time KDE SC user I miss the simplicity of using GNOME environments expressed to the maximum in elementary OS.
However, when I work from GNOME / Xfce applications - I have a Celeron with 1GB running Xfce + GNOME apps) - I happen to feel limited and h / claustrophobic as I am used to the power of KDE SC apps 😛
Exactly, exactly the same thing happens to me, but the real design is completely different, even if it is a common environment, I miss that super modern design, although I would not compare it with a tablet or a smartphone. But sadly glad we must accept the simple fact that KDE RULES!
I understand the perfect desktop to be one that does not bother, that you do not notice that it is there, and Gnome Shell is achieving it.
I've long been waiting for a change in the 'traditional desktop' paradigm, and Gnome Shell finally came to give me the simplicity I was looking for.
I LOVE GNOME!!!
And do not miss 😉
Gnome lost me a long time ago… so what they do I don't really take into account.
I don't see as good desktop gnome shell 3.
Instead Cinnamon, you really have to focus the gnome in this shell. It is very comfortable, simple.
Both in its beta facets, I found it great.
But from gnome to KDE, kde is superior.
One of the things I don't like about gnome is nautilus, you can use dolphin, but it is not the same to work on your default desktop.
I love it 😀 😀 😀
It is time to bury the concept of the bottom bar in the desks, you just have to EVOLVE!
I loved Ubuntu with gnome 2.x until they switched to Unity and GS 3.x and I went to xubuntu and happy with the choice, I decided to give unity and GS a try, conclusion I liked Unity (I didn't kill myself but I liked it and adapt fast), GS was weird, slow and with crash, then version 12.04 arrived and unity gave me more Crash than windows in a lifetime, the fault of compiz (my graph is intel), conclusion I went to Xubuntu 12.10 and so far happy like hen at a worm party, Because Xubuntu for its packages, because XFCE because it is stable, fast and the best beauty it has lately.
Come on gnome!
Maybe not the perfect desktop but almost XD.
At least it is the one I feel most comfortable with and the only other extensions I have in the tracker and the shutdown menu. Besides being much lighter than kde and unity
The truth is I love gnome, since I bought a new notebook I can finally test KDE well, but I still miss the environment of the little foot.
However, what I admire about KDE is the ease of use. I really want a good Gnome application to control the pc's touch pad (as is the kcm touchpad) and my bamboo tablet as my "new" environment does.
I think PCs are doomed to become twenty-something-inch smartphones ... well, we'll continue with fallback until they leave us.
Salu2
PS: The thing as they are, colorful and beautiful yes that is
Well, I'm happy with Gnome on Arch Linux ... I don't know why that radicalism: "I don't like it ... it doesn't work."
But worse still, how we hate a certain desktop environment to the death simply because our early 90's computer can't run it decently.
I don't use KDE simply because I don't like it, but I recognize how awesome it is and everything else.
You don't like Gnome ... well, pass him, period, for that there are alternatives.
I don't like gnome at all, a problem that bothers me even more is that with gtk3, qt applications do not look as good as when we used gtk2 environments, the other thing is that mutter is very slow compared to kwin and does not have a control center to improve performance.
Well, the truth is, I really liked gnome shell, I feel that it works well, maybe it's just a matter of "getting used to" its new design.
Gnome's "sin" was to take the step that others wanted but did not dare.
Remember that each Desktop Environment is a personal choice and not a standard for everyone.
Well, I sincerely believe that things have been coming their way, as an experiment .. That is, the initial idea was one, but over time they realized that a better one could emerge and they improved it .. what is called a accident 😀
I think the criticism of Gnome comes from those who want to continue working in the traditional way (something, on the other hand, perfectly valid). But to value Gnome apart from using it for a few months, you have to do it from the perspective of change. In other words, the desktop has to evolve, it has to change…. because the users of the technology have changed, because the hardware is changing, because the ways of interacting with the machine are changing…. Some ways do not exclude the others, but from the perspective of change, Gnome seems to me to be the best that is doing it… above other distros and above Windows or MacOS if you hurry me.
Another thing…. I use Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix 12.10 (gUbuntu)… .. but only until yesterday I have not dared to install the new Nautilus (Files is called now). And I like. Things have changed around but I like it. It has some annoying bug, but I like it. Now I am trying to see how the new applications are installed (Music, Photos, Dosumnetos, etc). Does anyone know if they are available already? What is the name of the packages?
To change all the Gnome 3.6 packages you must install the Gnome Team ppa in charge of Remix. Here they explain it well:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10
Check where it says "whats not included", and there come the links from the launchpad page to add the PPA.
Thank you. So far I go. Boxes and Documents is the only thing I have been able to add, apart from the new Nautilus. I think the rest of the new applications will have to wait, until February, when Gnome 3.8 is supposed to be released.
http://i.imgur.com/xbUJi.jpg