[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Jim

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

> And then there's the power management. Not specifically a gnome 3 thing but
> totally useless nonetheless. Any screen power down or blanking or suspend or
> hibernate can only be recovered from by a full
> hold-the-power-button-till-it-dies reboot. Most annoyingly, it also is a
> requirement about half the time that I ctl-alt-bksp after a simply screen lock
> as it won't provide the login box again.
>
> Frustrated. Irritated. But most of all, deeply, deeply disappointed. Linux is
> turning 20. Gnome is more than 10 years old now and still the principle
> designers appear to lack a solid understanding of workflow. I can't support
> rolling this desktop out to other people who are expected to actually get
> things done.
>
> But I can support rolling it back to the Fallback Desktop which does make
> nearly all of my complaints go away (System Settings window still falls off
> the bottom of the screen. Testing power management next).
>
> See here for how to make gnome 3 usable:
> http://www.rootninja.com/gnome-3-fallback-desktop-better-than-gnome-3-itself/

I, too, quickly went into fallback mode.  I want to be able to *use* my
system, not just have it look funny.  I want pre-defined workspaces, and
I want more than just a linear set of windows.

However, power management does seem to work fine for me.

-derek
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