Gnome Shell: Second Look
I recently, very recently, replaced my Ubuntu install with a fresh Fedora 12 installation. I must say that I really like Fedora overall. It just doesn't come with the luxuries that Ubuntu does so it takes a little more patience and fine tuning. To stay on topic I'm not going to go into a distro battle here. I want to give Gnome Shell a second opinion.
When I first tested Gnome Shell it was in Ubuntu and really unstable thanks to the unstable OS. After installing Fedora I decided to take my chances again. It runs 90% better on Fedora so the majority of what I hated was gone. I find it fascinating that they put everything in one location. It works and looks great while working. The developers of Gnome really had transparency in mind while working on Gnome Shell. That same transparency seems to have one major issue. When I want to go to another application or workspace I have to go back to the Activities menu and selected. Only a minor problem but it seems really counter intuitive. I guess you can always alt-tab for the apps but I want to use my mouse with as little effort as possible.
This was just a short update to really show that I did give it another chance on a more stable OS. I can only imagine what the future has in store Gnome and I feel that Gnome Shell is a step in the right direction.
Posted At 2010-01-26 01:43:42 by DeadWolf
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