Gnome replaces Unity

[Liam Proven]

On 14 October 2017 at 20:42, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 19:47 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> > but if I remember correctly Gnome 3 can't even minimize
>> > windows.
>>
>> You do not. It can.
>>
>> Double-click the title bar to maximise.
>> Right-click to minimise.
>>
>> What it can't do is middle-click to send-to-back
>
> You are wrong.  I do it all the time.
>
> Given the accuracy of the GNOME 3 knowledge displayed by people who are
> bashing it, perhaps they just should stick to talking about the good
> points of DEs that they do like and leave GNOME 3 abuse out of it
> completely.

Very strange. An artefact of my setup at work, then, perhaps. I found
the problem, on 2 machines, but I could not find any info on how to
work around it.

Anyway, I switched to Xfce and like it, so it's no problem any more.

I think the Ubuntu switch is going to result in a lot more GNOME
users, and that will result in a flurry of development of GNOME
extensions to make it look and work more like other desktops. That,
overall, is a good thing.

I'd also like to see GNOME extensions subsumed into distro's package
managers and control panels. Here's hoping for some rapid technical
development and improvement.


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