For tastes: colors. And to choose from, we also have GNOME, who not long ago was called the king of the Desktop Environments of GNU / Linux after the mistakes of KDE 4. But that is past history.
GNOME-SHELL, the new bet of the team of GNOME to attract users continues to evolve, perhaps not at a desirable pace, but it is there, moving forward.
An example of this are the changes that advertise on your blog one of its developers. And why not? We are going to show them here too.
For starters, we have a new status menu, which has been re-designed to show the username and to please some users who were complaining that the name in the top bar could bring privacy issues.
I must confess that I find the new design very pleasing to the eye, as well as the arrangement of the buttons for System Configuration, Session Lock, and Computer Shutdown.
As this developer says in his blog, this screenshot does not really do justice to the work done, so to have a more complete idea, you can access this link, where you can see all the possible options on this menu.
Another detail to highlight, although it does not provide much information about it, are the maximized applications, which eliminate the title bar:
The Control center and now there is a new Universal Access Panel, as well as a new way of managing screens:
Something very interesting that we can find in GNOME 3.10 is that we can set the wallpaper when the computer is locked:
Finally I would like to highlight a new Panel for the Date and time:
As a novelty, GNOME 3.10 incorporates a new application for MAPS.
If you want to see other details, I invite you to go to the original article but do not expect to find much more.
And it is that, seeing these applications and the changes in them, I realize that GNOME perhaps he is looking for the path of simplicity, as he does Elementary OS, something that is very good but that at least leaves me without options.
Why? Well, because of its simple applications, which only do one specific thing and there is no way to change its behavior. But hey, we are not all the same.
So: Congratulations GNOME users !!
Congratulations on removing the Title bar from the maximized windows, I had to occupy an extension for that
Excuse me, which extension is that extension? I want to use it in my laptop
Maximus
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/354/maximus/
Excuse the offtopic, gnomites.
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Of course!
1.- Off-topic forgiven.
2.- The proposal is fantastic.
Gnome since version 2 is only dedicated to changing the L&F, focusing more on a tablet than a PC and shitting on users and their respective opinions, they only continue on their way 'to win' and the world that adapts ...
I'm happy for Mate and Cinnamon, for whom Gnome brings us things that we are not interested in.
That may be your case, but not that of many others, certainly there are many Gnomers of the old school that we miss the old GNOME2, but GNOME3 is not the "devil" that many make us see, certainly there are things that GNOME should improve, but one One thing is for sure, they have been listening to users, since one of the requests that users made was to remove the annoying Title bar from the maximized windows and save that space to use it in the workspace.
What is not enough? True, but the change is noticeable, and if you customize GNOME a little more the change in the end will be quite marked, although, I keep saying something: GNOME takes up a lot of screen space and that on small screens becomes a nightmare to use.
Greetings.
In my case, GNOME doesn't bother me. What does bother me is the absence of a taskbar and the distro logo like the old GNOME 2.
What hurt me the most was also the absence of a list of open applications (the classic bottom panel). Fortunately that is fixed in version 3.8 with the classic mode, you now have the gnome 2 layout with the advantages of the activities view, I personally love it.
There are still things to be polished, but I think gnome-shell is starting to get color.
regards
Yes, well. But I'll wait for CentOS 7 to come out so I can fully test the GNOME Classic Shell.
orienting yourself to a tablet? It is recommended for me to press the Super key and have the applications to choose from, if you don't like it, then there you have LXDE, XFCE, etc ...
Mmm interesting changes, especially the disappearance of the title bar when a window is maximized (something that saves space and many will appreciate it) and the change in the menu arrangement (a nice detail certainly), although there is still much to improve I am sure that the GNOME guys will bring us some surprises in the future.
If they rescue the best of GNOME 2 and implement it properly into GNOME 3 without wasting a lot of resources, then that would be great.
I'm still nostalgic for GNOME 2, but I hope most of all that MATE is included in the stable release of Debian Jessie.
I miss fallback mode
I also miss the Fallback mode that GNOME 3.4 had, but you can use MATE as a good replacement.
If you still want to use Fallback Mode, you can use the Debian Wheezy repos and from there install GNOME 3.4 which already comes with Fallback mode.
Hope the Mint team or the SOLU OS team. May they bring GNOME 2 written with GTK 3.6.
I would be happy to see CINNAMON 2.0 or CONSORT as worthy replacements for GNOME 2.4
Or they can work out the rough edges of MATE and add support for GTK 3.6.
Well, at the moment they don't want to introduce Mate in Debian
“MATE introduces a lot of code duplication, which is considered bad in
Debian, and is based on obsolete technologies - not just GTK2, which
will of course remain for a long time, but also things like Bonobo which
very few people really understand, and which are the cause of a lot of
not-well-understood bugs.
For these reasons I object to having MATE in Debian. OTOH I invite you
to contribute to GNOME 3 packaging to make it look great and fix
remaining regressions.
I am of course not the one to decide whether your packages can be
accepted; the FTP masters will. »
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783
You missed reading the other messages that indicate that the MATE desktop development team is willing to stabilize the desktop, as well as intending to work with the GNOME team in order to include them in the official Debian repos.
No more flame, please.
Flame ????
privacy issues? Naa, I liked having the name on the top bar.
Anyway, I still like Gnome I hope that by the time Gnome 3.10 comes out I will have a laptop to test it (I feel that my netbook is not good with Gnome, it is very fluid but I feel that I lack space)
That happens to them for not knowing how to create pseudonyms.
Apa! What beautiful designs they were incorporating. I love. Greetings and thanks for the contribution
Good review!
Although I will hardly try Gnome again, I must admit I loved hiding the title bar.
I join. Not even my girlfriend have been given as many opportunities as gnome ... I always criticized that chota bar that did nothing but take up space ... I insist ... gnome lacks designers ... those same ones that abound in Google or Apple ... their idea is good ... but that of following the engineering lines ... na ...
And again will they break the gtk api for desktop themes?
Gnome shell is missing three main things ... stability, functionality, and speed.
Happy moment with Xfce :-).
GNOME is very stable to tell the truth, in my experience, more stable than KDE (the last thing I used was KDE 4.8), but comparing it with the stability of XFCE is impossible, not only because XFCE has more development time than GNOME3, but also by the libraries where its structure is based (GTK3 vs GTK2)
That's true. Also, it was for that reason that Slackware got rid of GNOME 2 in 2005.
Title bar discarded when maximizing, maps, username deletion…. I'm still not convinced by the current version of GNOME 3.10. If they put the menu bar again, I will return (although I will wait for CentOS 7 to be released to fully test the GNOME Classic Shell).
In the meantime, I'll stick with my GNOME 3.4 Fallback with Sans (the font used by GNOME 3 looks unreadable at high resolutions).
If they think I'm using a buggy version of GNOME, they gossip. I use the GNOME that came with Debian Wheezy, and at least the Nautilus has a title bar.
If you could remove the active corner and the top bar I would happily change to Gnome, total if you put a menu extension (I remember Mint 12 brought it), the list of windows and the notification area in the lower area what you Left is practically Cinnamon.
I better go to KDE.
Skip KDE, which also has its problems, and hit Xfce. It is a pleasure to work with it and also everything is very fast with a pc with 1 GB of Ram and a 32 bit processor ..
For speed I go with Icewm, it has not been updated for years and it is a stone of fast.
Guys, I'm already on Slackware 14 (on Virtualbox) >> https://blog.desdelinux.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/snapshot1.png
I hope to finish the "Log of an installation with Slackware" saga soon as soon as possible.
Sorry for the absence of accents, I still need to configure that and much more.
HEY the size of the comments are smaller or are they my ideas?
They are your ideas.
I really like the idea of removing the title bar (it was the only thing I liked about unity), it saves space.
I, without a title bar, cannot live.
Excellent, excellent.
Well, those who complain about the simplicity of gnome is that they do not remember that that was always their goal, another thing is that before they did not apply it a lot, so gnome follows its essence, which was never customization and adjustments to the extreme (for that use kde).
Regarding the advancement and development of gnome, I think it has been normal, I do not remember if it has the same rhythm as kde 4 in its beginnings, but if there are advances, of course, from one version to another there are no drastic changes, that is already known made in gnome 3.0.
I have been using gnome since 2008 and am still using it now with gnome shell.
PS: What distro can I try gnome 3.10 on?
In Arch.
In opensuse milestone 3.
I used gnome in my beginnings in linux in mandriva 2009 and 2010, and I have to say that since gnome shell came out, I was totally disappointed with the desktop structure, it is more focused on touch devices (see windows 8), than on desktop, and it turns out little productive. I have tested it in several installations in different distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mageia, etc), and in addition to looking very heavy, it is very little customizable (much less than gnome 2). If gnome follows simplicity, in the end won't it become a bad copy of xfce? Since my disappointment with the update to gnome 3 (Mandriva 2010 was like a shot with gnome 2), I tried KDE and I can say that it is the best desktop of the moment in terms of customization and resource management, stability and fluidity (in Mageia 3 for least) installed on my Asus 1005 PE netbook is about 300 MG of consumption with stationery, transparencies, sales effects, etc. The only downside I can give it are the boot times, if KDE adopted the Windows 8 boot system (be careful, I don't use it !!!) it would be the perfect desktop ...
Good for the Gnome team, but I find it very difficult to use it again.
Such plastic designs persist, in particular they give me the feeling of working in an unprofessional environment, as if it were the desk of a team from the OLPC project lol.
But if the desktop layout of OLPC laptops is more useful than the current GNOME 3.10 shell layout.
I've been viewing Linux Mint 16 information
Cinnamon 2.0 is preparing for the assault as a new desktop.
Linux Mint introduces the new MintStick for creating USB keys and formatting.
All the information from the Italian blog. lffl.org
http://www.lffl.org/2013/08/linux-mint-16-il-nuovo-mintstick-avra.html
Linux Mint 16 Petra will not bring big changes to the CINNAMON 2.0 environment
Linux Mint 16 with CINNAMON 2.0 will focus on stability.
The change will be the adaptation and rewriting of the applications from GNOME 3.6 to CINNAMON 2.0 to create the new desktop and make it compatible with the adapted applications.
Well, I liked gnome 3.8, it improved a lot and I'm sure I'm going to test v 3.10 but this time in openSUSE when it comes out.
Well, the truth is that it looks very good, I really like gnome shell, but… I miss compiz the truth, that times….
when it will be in the arch D repo:
I have Fedora 19 with Gnome 3.8.2. is it necessary to reinstall the OS to have 3.10?
you're going to have to wait for fedora 20 to come out and if you don't want to reinstall I recommend using fedup.
http://blog.xenodesystems.com/2013/07/actualizar-de-fedora-18-fedora-19-sin.html
on the other hand, gnome 3.10 looks good while waiting.
How good what you say about GNOME, it is evolving at a good pace and always within the line that characterizes this desktop, even though the change in the paradigm of use that they implemented in GNOME3 has been so drastic compared to the paradigm of outdated use of GNOME2 .
IIRC the last time I used GNOME2 was with Ubuntu 8.10 since then I migrated to Kubuntu 9.04, I put up with it until 9.10 and when faced with the decision to continue using Kubuntu + straitjacket, end my flirtation with KDE and call it shit or migrate to another distro finally [Ad] I discovered Arch where well, not only KDE works well [/ Ad].
Despite the fact that I have been using KDE as my main desktop for about 6 years, what I always liked about GNOME is that simplicity and practicality that KDE does not have when you first install the distro. In GNOME everything is practical, simple, comfortable and fast, in KDE it is just the opposite unless you take your time and accommodate it.
However, GNOME has a huge flaw: the oversimplification of both its system tools and related applications. KDE wins by a landslide here because once you configure the interface as you like to use it, the power of the applications and the configurability of the environment is impressive, it does not exist in any other desktop F / LOSS and not F / LOSS.
I also suppose for a certain audience that does not use their system thoroughly, GNOME fits them perfectly: it is more complete and integrated than Xfce and similar 'light' options and they are ready to use without having to spend a good initial time configuring the various aspects of the environment .
Good review, appreciated!
I really like Gnome and its applications, but I see that each update gradually screw up nautilus.
Thanks for the article and good for GNOME and I want to update to Fedora 20.
ps would miss the global menu 🙁 is what I think is missing