Linus Torvalds has once again put out the sharp tongue in his profile in Google+. Turns out, he decided to upgrade from Fedora 14 to 17, because the X versions were old enough. But he was also aware that he had to deal with GNOME 3, an environment with which he does not get along.
First he begins by criticizing the fact that it has to be installed gnome-tweak-tool to change the font size, when these defects should already be fixed in this version.
Then he continues with the great object of his quarrel: the site extensions.gnome.org. The favorites panel extension is installed first, mostly to avoid using the main menu to open multiple terminals. But then when you want to install the auto-hide extension, the site tells you that your GNOME 3 version is not up to date (Fedora version is 3.4.1). Then he discovers that it is the Chrome plugin that is broken. Try Firefox and succeed. Now you don't need to look at "that ugly ass thing that was clearly designed by some teenage goth who thinks black is cool."
But where did the lock screen button go? He regrets that the extension he used for that doesn't work anymore. It also cannot find the extension that allows you to add flags to Chrome's entry in the favorites panel.
The post ends by saying:
I have to say that I thought the technique of extensions.gnome.org to fix gnome3 deficiencies it was really fine. It made me say "Ahh, I can finally solve the problems I had." But it seems that it has become another big problem, when it ends up turning from something almost magical to customize your desktop to something that randomly fails and does not follow a pattern on a number of different machines. And the extensions seem to randomly fail when you update the system, so they won't work the way they did or the way they would if you installed only the base system. Conclusion: extensions.gnome.org It may be a very good idea, but it seems to have some serious usability issues in practice. And the whole focus of de Gnome 3 from "By default, we won't give you the most basic tools to fix things, but you can hack things using unofficial extensions." seems to be a total flaw for the user experience. "
Source: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i