[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[Rich Faulkner]

Thank you Jim for the review.  I've been working-up a new system for my
desktop and have been listening for reviews of Gnome3.  The more I see
of what's going on with Unity and Gnome3 the more I think I'll stick
with Gnome2 (my preference). 

RinL


On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:52 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46 AM, James Sumners
> <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Jim Kinney
>         <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > If you had, you would have very clearly understood the
>         reference to the Mac
>         > interface and forced usage of the interface.
>         
>         
>         When you say "told what I can do with my desktop" that
>         implies, to me,
>         that the system is preventing actual usage. Being able to
>         change the
>         way the interface looks (removing panels, adding new panels,
>         etc.) is
>         different. OS X has not prevented me from doing anything that
>         I want
>         to do on my desktop, and Gnome 3 wouldn't either. I assume
>         Gnome 3
>         makes it difficult to do things, and is the reason I don't
>         ever see
>         myself using it. OS X's interface is minimal, but it doesn't
>         make
>         actually using the system a difficulty. So I still don't think
>         the
>         reference makes sense.
> 
> Ah well. It does to me. Sorry I don't have the time to explain better
> why I see it that way. 
> 
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