GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions

supersloshy writes "The launch of the GNOME 3 desktop environment sparked heated debate and criticism. GNOME developers have been listening to the concerns of its users and it is rolling out several significant changes in GNOME 3.6. The message tray, often called hard to use, was made much more visible in addition to being harder to accidentally trigger. The "lock" screen can now optionally control your music player, the system volume, and display notifications so you don't have to type in a password. GNOME will also support different input sources directly instead of requiring an add-on program. Nautilus, the GNOME file browser, is also getting a major face lift with a new, more compact UI, properly working search features, a "move to" and "copy to" option as an alternative to dragging and dropping, and a new "recent files" section. These changes, among many others including improvements to system settings, will be present in GNOME 3.6 when it is released later this month. Any other additions or changes not currently implemented by the GNOME team can be easily applied with only one click at the GNOME Extensions website."

Nautilus? Compact? No.

[MrEricSir]

Nautilus, the GNOME file browser, is also getting a major face lift with a new, more compact UI...

Actually they removed compact view. [gnome.org] To say it's "more compact" is the opposite of what happened.

Re:All two

[Nerdfest]

You don't see the notifications at all (other than a toaster style warning the moment it happens). You have to 'ask' for them to be shown by putting the mouse in the bottom right corner of the screen. They hide them while the screen is *not* locked.

Re:Iterations

[uglyduckling]

The menu bar following the app has always been a feature of the Mac OS. It's nothing to do with using one app at a time, it's to do with the muscle memory advantage of just shoving the mouse to the top of the screen regardless of which application you're using. It also saves screen space by avoiding having multiple near-identical menus all over the screen.

I hear all these people switching to OSX.

[Zombie Ryushu]

And I start to wonder if these are just Apple Trolls. Listen, It's easy enough to switch to KDE or XFCE. I run Mandriva 2011. I use KDE. I have my own custom KDE theme installed with rpm. It works fine. There is no reason to abandon Linux because Gnome sucks, just run whatever programs you please under XFCE or KDE if Gnome is so awful.

You are an idiot if you switch to OSX or Windows over this.

Re:Why Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because OSX has a shit window manager. (Although Gnome 3 also has a mediocre one.)

Re:Too late

[tuppe666]

Over 6 releases to have them starting to listen to their user? I am out!

Ignoring the fact that Gnome Developers are Users too; There has only been 3 releases [Odd .1 are development releases]; You never had to run it with Mate; Unity; Cinnomom [my personal preference]. Where are you going to, Seriously put that install Ubuntu on that overpriced Apple now so you know what you are talking about :)

Re:Nautilus? Compact? No.

[caseih]

The Mate desktop runs great on Fedora 17 with a third-party repo, and will be in the 18 repos. You can still have Gnome 2.