| | | . | How do you think Gnome may be improved in the next major version? | Your name? | . | I dont know | Joshua Griggs | . | Give users the option to disable the use of gnome-panels for those who want to use such things as AWN or Docky. | Logan | . | es necesario limpiar el escritorio asi como añadir animaciones i belleza.
gnome shell es buena idea pero creo que por el momento pierde mucha usabilidad respecto al actual modelo, deberia aprovecharse mejor el espacio | ugluck | . | Work with the Compiz (Fusion) Team | Richard | . | - Incorporate tags into Nautilus
- Fix some of the issues with gtkfilechooser (i.e. not following Nautilus' single/double click setting, not being able to do some basic file manipulation e.g. renaming a newly created folder because of a typo when doing Save As, being able to deselect a a folder when doing a Save As so that when you click save it doesn't open the folder that is selected that you can't deselect)
- If a composite manager is involved please please please use SyncToVblank so there's no awful tearing.
- Clean up the notification area but don't completely get rid of it
| Nick | . | Better support for keyboard-only users | Hessiess | . | not about gnome, but the survey:
Do you use other Desktop Environments? *
Does not accept it that i only use gnome, too bad :)
Do you find what are you searching for in the filesystem tree? *
I mostly use the shell to search files. Using "open-gnome" (got an alias for that) and "open terminal here" in nautlilus i switch between nautlis and the terminal quite often.
| Florian Ludwig | . | Clarify many programs, correct what don't works.
I think i won't notice here all what could be improved...
But if you want i can do a list :) | Anthony | . | Theme packages should be able to contain panel background image and apply it to the panel when activated.
If possible make it so that gnome-games can be installed separately as some only like some of them.
Make it so Evolution is uninstallable, I have 3 mailing services, all of which are online and after trying gmail with evolution made it clear that for my type of usage it wasn't important feature to have a mail client.
New version of gnome window list. Perhaps something in this direction.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=986338&highlight=window+gnome
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=95979&d=1228966698 | Gman | . | Improved handling and management of windows, better menu too. | Anonymous | . | -A single panel should be used alongwith the Gnome-shell
- The desktop should be centered not on aplications but on documents, making the workflow easier.
-All of the GNOME apps should have good synergy. (Cheese->take a pic->send to buddy, etc...) | José Luis Ricón | . | one thing: Fix Nautilus...
numerous lockups when browsing through ntfs drives or with video related folders... | Anonymous | . | KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) | Jonathan A. Wingo | . | Please, don't change Gnome, it's the best DE I ever used.
Things I would like to be fixed:
Window resizing lacks in some applications. Select file dialogs often are opened minimized, it's bad and annoying.
| ruhe | . | GNOME programs' appearance could be more customizable (toolbar buttons, hotkeys for menu items etc.). I also wish the session management bug to be fixed. | Eugene | . | Being able to right click on a folder and then play the music files in that folder would be a nice addition. | Anonymous | . | Focus on workflows and upgrading the underlying Gnome technologies. | Anonymous | . | Gnome is great the way it is | Michael Sierks | . | More educational programs for children, pupils and students. | Anonymous |
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| | | . | speed, speed speed. more openbox like shortcuts/reconfigurability. | Anonymous | . | By allowing programs to be selected without having to go through the panels... even if this means just adding a search bar for quick access in the menu. | Ian Higginson | . | Focus on stuff like Zeitgeist, and to a lesser extent, Gnome Shell. Add built in window tiling. Thunderbird evolution-data-server support (though I've switched to Ubuntu). Adopt Shiki-colors as an included theme, and GNOME-colors as the default icon set. | Michael White | . | GNOME Shell! :-p | Anonymous | . | The speed to load the gnome desktop. Also the stability of the desktop, that sometimes is to slow with the full effects including grafics cards with a lot of ram memory. | Juanma | . | Clipboard does not store copied text when the window is closed. Say, if you copy an URL from firefox and then close that application, the clipboard is cleared of that text. | Yasasvy | . | Providing the User with the data he/she needs in less then three clicks! | Seif Lotfy | . | By doing more of what has always been done | Anonymous | . | Integrate notify-osd. It looks great! | Julian Lam | . | Integrate tracker from the get go.
Make Gnome more contextual by nature. So depending on the current activity parts of the shell should change.
Simple things like the main menu editor could be enabled through a contextual menu in the main menu rather than a separate entry in the Preferences menu.
Make the design of unique shaped and behaving widgets easy(ish) and still provide accessibility and themability. | Matthew | . | I love gnome-shell - put it in!
| Anonymous | . | Gnome sometimes feels kind of old and static.
Often used Apps, Tasklist and Notifications of Apps should be merged together so only one icon in the panel/dock totally represents the Application. Something between GnomeDo (functionality) and Windows7 (panel/taskbar style)? | Anonymous | . | semantic desktop
better workspace handling | Anonymous | . | Cleaner and nicer looking interface. Better support for wireless maybe not so much of a gnome issue but more a linux issue in general | Tim | . | Focus on usability, I know you do, but do as much as you can. Make it even more easier to use, less thinking and more working. | Laco Gubik | . | Improve a gnome panel: make it easier to create applets for it. Add folder view for f-spot. Make it possible to minimize Evolution to tray. | Ivan Stetsenko | . | Keep a simple interface
Gnome-Do preinstalled with some reasonable defaults and plugins | Anonymous | . | 1. Many "_Browse..." applications (applications that start when you're looking for a file to upload e.g.) are very incomplete and seem to vary greatly between programs. If you are uploading an image it often does not include a small thumbnail, so you can see the image in more detail. You can also not create a new folder in browsing windows, so you have to open Nautilus, find your way to the working directory and make a new folder that way (because you often need a new folder when you're downloading something, say if you're downloading a picture of a new friend and you need a folder called "Pictures of Casey")
2. The GNOME panel is monochrome and it's hard to make it look good.
3. Not all icons grow big when you increase the size of the panel. Icons like the users in the 'User switcher' are embiggened but the shut down button isn't. Every launcher icon gets bigger while the icons in the notification area don't. The main menu icon grows bigger while the weather icon doesn't etc. It's highly inconsistent.
4. The icons on the GNOME panel are always coloured differently, this is of course the 'fault' of those that made the icons for said programs but when the panel has the main menu, the weather, the window list, the notification icons and the user switcher applets... all differently coloured it does not look good. I can't think of a way of solving that extemporaneously but please consider a way to make it more uniform. I'm not talking about making all the icons blue, or red, but rather making them fit better together. The KTorrent icon e.g. sticks out like a sore thumb.
5. A very small improvement; I use the "Character Palette" to store Icelandic quotation marks (both double: „...“ and single: ,...‘). I never use just one, and I want to be able to group them together. That is to say, I want the character palette to copy both quotes („“) when it click them instead of just one. That way I don't have to click the first one („), select the program and pasting, then click the other one (“) and selecting the program again and pasting it. | Baldur Blöndal | . | Properly integrating people as first class objects, let me set GMail as my prefered email "program" and generally deal better with web applications. Better and deeper integrating index searching such as Beagle (one example would be using it to manage my media library). Make .NET a first class citizen in GNOME on equal terms. I would like to see exciting experiments such as using Moonlight extensively to do GUI work in GNOME.
Task oriented interface rather than application focused.
Rethink the whole applet mess. So much crack is going on and surely a saner solution could be thoughtout.
Integrate and embrace PackageKit to do exciting little helpful things like installing lacking dependencies to support on demand (e.g. 7zip when opening a file and it is not present).
Embrace a media library solution into the desktop, we need something to handle different types of media. Syncs up with external devices and displays a nice interface to interact with this library - Banshee is excellent in this area.
The "IM" solution should definitely include Webcam/VoIP support for MSN, it is a vital lacking part of the desktop that keeps many people from embracing GNOME.
Design a task oriented minimal GNOME'ish shell for Netbook and Nettops to fill the niche with the solid GNOME stack and give standardize experience for device makers to offer. This should be designed with the goals and intended tasks of a netbook in mind rather than a "small laptop". Looking at something like the EeePC's Linux interface would be a good start. | David Nielsen | . | i think its needed a major improvement, less time to get everything usable at startup | Chuso |
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| | | . | One panel instead of two and somehow make the launching of applications easier. +1 for better multi-monitor support +1 for faster startup. | Johannes Schmid | . | easier program launching ala gnome do | Vadim Peretokin | . | I would like to see GTK get modernized. I think it has gotten behind QT in terms of exploring the capabilities of the modern computer/gpu.
Also make gconf more streamlined. I dislike KDE for having way too much options to configure, but Gnome hides them which makes configuring harder. Give more power to the end user, while not giving too many options. | João Santiago | . | IMPORTANT:
Epiphany should be more functional.
Setting up accounts in Evolution should be simpler.
Something like Gnome Do should be integrated.
There should be a native instant messaging application with webcam, voice and popular protocol support.
EXTRA:
Menus should be designed better.
The calculator should be able to solve algebraic problems and draw simple graphs.
There should be a GUI configuration utility for commonly edited configuration files (ex. /etc/fstab. /boot/grub/menu.lst, etc). | Anthony Sinnott | . | 2 perfectly designed ways to operate the system. One for keyboarded computers/laptops. the other one for touchscreen devices. Integrate live search at many places, the best thing I could imagine is type as you search component for searching in menu items of running application, so I don't have to lookup my desired command in menu if I know it's name.
Integrate well many things, evolve gconf, more use of dbus in applications. Could be interested to extend GtkMenu to automatically provide list of it's items through dbus, and method to execute them. This way could for example Gnome Do handle searching and executing of them. I hate application menu because I have to visually search for command I want. | Anonymous | . | Major face lift, new default theme with a more modern look. | Anonymous | . | More flexible and customizable window manager.
Improvements in the development framework (what happened with Guile scheme? why isn't it used more in Gnome?).
I also believe that gnome-do and/gimme functionality should be integrated in Gnome. | Fernando | . | better web integration (xul?). | Luka | . | GTK+ Themes should have special styles for general purpose, like Apple does with Scope Bar[1] and Source Lists[2].
Dedicated widgets (or default widgets with different graphic styles) make applications much more professional in a visual way.
[1] the lighter bar -- http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/art/wn_dictionaryscopebar.jpg
[2] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/art/wn_sourcelist.jpg | Vinicius Depizzol | . | It needs to have a number of highly logical and unique animations which accompany major elements of the user interface. Major UI aspects should be mutually exclusive (as opposed to the OSX Dock, which lumps many functions together), non-repetitive (like how Windows displays the same information in 3 different ways, or supports multiple overlapping ways of doing simple tasks), and geared towards maximizing scalability regardless if using a single small screen, or multiple cinematic screens. | Anonymous | . | Make it faster. | Anonymous | . | Much greater integration between integrated applications, as well as between them and other popular programs. For instance, allowing the Evolution calendar to change your status in IM clients (Empathy, Pidgin) to match what you're scheduled to do. A solid epiphany-webkit. Don't worry so much about appearance changes and functionality changes - there are lots of ways the environment could better contribute to productivity through integration and streamlining before we worry about spending too many resources on prettiness. | Tony Yarusso | . | By staying classy and fixing the nautilus multiple displays bug | Anonymous | . | *An integrated theme installer is really needed. | Anonymous | . | I'm generally pleased with the current state of things, I don't have any specific areas where I think improvement is necessary. A little more configurability wouldn't hurt, I generally love the defaults but I don't like having them forced on me all the time. | Anonymous | . | I love my older laptop running ubuntu with gnome ... it does every thing i need it to and more...
U guys Rock!
keep up the good work.
| brian | . | What is not important, it is important to the overall structure is better for a good architecture design, development will be gradually changed for the better, otherwise, not evolution. | joo tsao | . | My main gripes are another window grabbing focus whilst I am typing, or when I launch a program then change workspace while it loads, resulting in the program opening in the new workspace rather than the one I launched it in. | Simon Fendall | . | 1. Crash of a panel applet shouldn't hang the whole panel
2. Better integration with cell-phones/smart-phones
3. Locking screen should also switch it off using DPMS.
4. Default Epiphany web browser should have minimum font size settings set. Web pages have tiny text in Epiphany alone.
5. Some sort of preferences search. Say I search for 'Fonts', it should show me the Appearance option. Or if I search for 'Mouse keys' it should show me the Keyboard dialog box and not the Mouse dialog box. | Roshan George | . | Too many dialogs confirming things that are working. Sign onto your wifi LAN, for example, and it presents a notice letting you know it worked. Of course it worked; I only want to know when it doesn't, otherwise it seems reasonable to expect that it just does what I tell it.
With all due respect, there's only one OS which gives more frequent unnecessary user feedback: Windows ("You just mounted a removable volume", "You are now connected to the Internet", "Updates installed successfully", etc.)
Please don't be like Win. All that noise is really bothersome.
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| | | . | The option to have SLAB GNOME and/or Classic GNOME (2.26.x). Better integrated compositing effects. GNOME with Compiz is "OK" but Compiz causes significant slow down with some programs and sometimes causes programs to cease function (Specifically games). I don't use Compiz for this reason, Metacity is nice but a "fade to window" would be nice - not just a black square. | Richard | . | Better Bug reporting, more compatibility with hardware (Nvidia this means you) | Tim McConnell | . | Nothing special, just keep up the good work | Benedikt | . | Improve evolution. At the moment it doesn't use the delete key to delete emails for example and it should. | Shane Fagan | . | Look fresher, the panels always look incredibly plain.
More use of nautilus, less use of individual applications ... eg ability to queue playlists of OGV and OGG in nautilus rather than in rhythmbox and totem.
Library directories which know they are designed for a specific task, eg photo folders, music folders, movie folders... The ability to have movies have tags just like id3 in mp3s.
An album directory should become a metaphor for the physical object, the icon become a CD or DVD cover, clicking on it giving a KDE 4.2 like widget that offers the ability to open it or play it, tangible, tactile ability to zoom and rotate the cover and read the contents on the back... The ability to read reviews from the internet and fetch lyrics from with in nautilus would make GNOME feel great! No other DE seems to offer this at the moment.
F-spot needs to improve a lot. It's a really nice program but just needs so much more polish.
Lately F-spot opens when I plug in a digital camera... it doesn't really work nicely... the old way seemed easier and more intuitive even though F-spot is exactly where I usually want those photos to go.
GNOME should be something I show off to friends not just tell them I use it because it works well. | laurent | . | - Including an easy to use photo management application
- Evolution is too complex for the average user who just wants to do basic email stuff so maybe make a simpler cleaner e-mail program that integrates well with a photo management application.
- The ability to set the default Icon size just for the icons on the desktop. | Anonymous | . | Clean, easy and semantic desktop maybe? Very simple but nice in the looks, but very powerful (in a simple way, e.g. Deskbar) when it comes to functions? | Anonymous | . | Compositing enabled by default, more dynamic environment, improve TIlda and replace Gnome Terminal, improved theming engine, more integrated service to download new themes, full PulseAudio integration with per-application volume management, dynamic icons(http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18641/), new cohesive notification system, animated icons for video(not default), improve the taskbar(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs30/f/2008/046/d/a/Tray_example_by_hbons.png), default time/weather-based wallpaper, visual volder hierarchy, better playlist-based music player. | Nicholas Ipsen | . | PDA/Smartphone Integration. | Steve | . | I would like the panel hiding options to be more flexible in order to allow me reduce the number of distractions, see this for details: http://railean.net/index.php/2009/01/04/remove_taskbar_become_more_productive | Alex | . | I tend to do things via mouse, so having a window picker or selector in taskbar is very helpful. In Gnome 2.x I do not use a top bar & organize the lower bar similar to Mac OSX--I also like the lower bar to hide to allow more screenspace. | Dean Loros | . | pluggable applets, widgets gadgets screenlets... | Anonymous | . | - Redo GTK or ditch it. It's terribly slow, or appears to be when it redraws. Any Qt-based application looks so much faster and more responsive. GTK is one of the main reasons why GNU/Linux GUIs look much more sluggish and slower than Windows, and this is hurting GNU/Linux as a desktop operating system.
- Please add more customization; don't hide or remove advanced features; don't insult my intelligence. Keep in mind if you design a desktop for idiots, only idiots will use it. I'd like everything to be customizable, everything to have an option to display as much information of anything as possible (down to raw hardware information if possible), almost everything to offer a command-line or command-based interface equivalent clearly, and nothing hidden at all. The first time I used GNOME I had a hard time finding how to merely run a process by name - this is sad, as even the toy operating system Windows has a prominent place for this feature (Start+Run). And no, launching processes is not an advanced hacker feature.
- No automatically applied settings: this is ridiculous and dangerous. I hate that. One "Apply" button is not going to make it a desktop for neckbearded hackers.
- Don't worry about transparency, animation, and other useless stuff. I want to get real work done; I worry for what's inside windows, not what's outside them. I don't want to waste system resources and time waiting for windows to perform some cute dance on my desktop; I need to get my job done. | Miguel Perez | . | 1. Look and feel - More bright look
2. Simplicity - It has, but no one knows it is simple | Hiran Venugopalan | . | Much better Internet intergration to the desktop | Jared | . | not real sure but better than KDE4 | Anonymous | . | Need some clean up in the nautilus. The taskbar menus can be integrated into single one. A must is a good menu editor for Applications menu. Some times i got alacarte-made menu. A search is a must in the Application menu like KDE. The Roll up feature want back. More... I Will write a detailed article .. Kindly send a contact mail | Ranjith Siji | . | Well, I think that making it run just a little lighter than the 2.x series is right now, but that could be a difficult task as obviously adding more stuff, makes it run heavier, but then again, who doesn't like a good challenge?
Although it does not usually affect me personally as my Computer handles gnome perfectly.
But, sometimes on other machines I've put it on, it tends to slow them down.
Another thing you could do is, make some of the programs integrated, such as empathy, support more functions, file transfer would be nice.
But, when I own a computer, use run an OS & DE, the main thing I look for is: Customizability. I want to be able to change every single aspect of it, and put it how I like it, I currently do this. But sometimes I do find limits.
Most people will probably be saying "make it look like vista" filling out this survay. Which is fine, but I'm not most people, I want a nice, clean, and light desktop :) Unlike KDE.
Now, as for "main menu" which you can get on Gnome 2.x (you know, the one were it's just one button, and it pops up in a straight line?) I think you should leave that, however, at the same time make it changable. meaning, if someone wanted to make it look like vista's start menu, they only have to do a few clicks and it's done.
Basically like a start menu manager, you could click it, like the edit menu's is now, except it could be much more powerful. And allow you to change it, apply themes etc. The start menu can already be customized. but there is no easy way to do so without first having some sort of knowledge of Linux.
Clearly for me this isn't a problem, and for me, it would benefit me, but in one way: Quickness.
Also, bring back GDM's customizability.. I miss it :-( | Jake Shipton | . | Desktop search is a must. Improve support for photo management. Notifications can be nicer. | Ashik | . | Top panel is an essentiel part. Bottom panel not so much. Maybe a dock like Gnome-Do, but can be presented as an option for those need a dock. Show the running apps by icon in the top panel, not wide like a taskbar but only with a icon (like deskbar, gnome-look.org). I like the activity concept (with the workspace view), but make sure that there is a 2D and a 3D option for that in relation to powersavings, GPU.
I must admit that my personal wish for a future desktop environment is very much like this mockup found here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837.
Simpel and clean with two small docks, very task/activity oriented but very effective in my opinion. In my mind this is what many people like there desktop to look like, especially on a netbook type device. | Anonymous |
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| | | . | New look and feel can be added(like themes and new noyification style). Porting AmaroK to gnome will be a good idea. Or Rockbox can be given a similiar interface(browsing files by location is a good thing in amarok).
Expose effect should be added to metacity. | Aswin | . | Add some more useful tools like the ones provided with the KDE. Add more polish.. :) | Sreejith K | . | Make it look good, Compiz does a great job allready but the gnome desktop shouldn't look like a desktop environment of 5 years ago. Think about somethink new maybe, don't follow current desktop trends, don't make a windows/mac/kde desktop, make a gnome desktop. Maybe move more towards an action oriented desktop instead of a menu oriented desktop. Gnome-do is great but maybe this could be even more integrated into the desktop experience.
Make it intuitive, make it fast, make it pretty and make it revolutionary. Or just make it as good as possible, you're allready doing a great job with the gnome desktop! | Kristof | . | The integration with firefox should be improved, as well thunderbird,especially "saving" to network shares.
More integration with "the internets" ;-) like the online-desktop and other similar
More "task oriented" concept where you group "people, ressources, documents" by task/tags
General speed up, any speed you can give to it will be good
PS
Please don't change the idea of top and bottom panel, may people will ask because they are used to windows. | David Tremblay | . | integrate gnome-do
use a flat-file heiarchy with tags on filenames | Anonymous | . | The notification area a should be split into two parts - a notification area and a tray area. The notification area should be a small divider where only notification messages are displayed, and the tray area for application's tray icons. This would also allow to hide inactive tray icons, reducing clutter. See this report for more information:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531641 | Stewart Adam | . | Carefully.
I believe it would be a mistake to change the interface radically as KDE did.
Careful study of users, both old and new should guide change.
Two things I would say is:
I would like to see Gnome faster and lighter.
I would like to tile Windows as well as overlay them. | Joe Burmeister | . | - more support for fullscreen programs / workflow
- gnome-do like functionality | Anonymous | . | 3 | init_6 | . | I wish to have some program or menu allowing me to transfer programs in one menu to anoteeeeher eg when i install tux paint it comes in education menu i wish to drag and drop to graphics menu as well as i want to know where a new program installs goes to which menu usually i get irritated by number of menus i have to check after installing a program.
| Jesse.Xu | . | I like what I se now but have not been with Gnome long enough. | raymond house | . | more Easter Eggs | David Vincent | . | Modern layout
reduce to 1 pane bottom or top
lighter on memory
more modularize to remove unused application (example floppy format tool) | Clifton | . | More interactive desktop options and widgets. | Anonymous | . | Reducing the amount of "chrome" on the screen, having a more obvious switch between doing real things (applications) and doing computery things (file management, settings, administration)... very much where GNOME Shell apepars to be going. | Anonymous | . | Focus stealing prevention should be worked on, it happens quite often to be typing some text and a dialog from another program pops up and get wrong input.
| Anonymous | . | better compiz integration
better im than pidgin
| marcogh | . | * Clean sound interface. OSS vs. ALSA vs. Pulse Audio is really messy. Pick one and get the environment working with it nicely.
* Ensure applications, specially applets, survive suspend and hibernate cycles. For example, the volume applet (2.24.1) goes bananas (100% CPU utilization) every time the system comes back from hibernation.
* Ensure a simple IM application with full VoIP and Video conference support is available. So make Empathy work well, or get Pidgin functionality integrated into Ekiga, or get Pidgin to do VoIP/Video, or whatever. The fact is, IM/VoIP/Video should be straight forward to use via an integrated application.
| Anonymous | . | Make it use LESS RAM. | Joost Ruis | . | Gnome is great as it is at the moment. I'd like to see some more eyecandy implemented to core GTK+. I'd like to see that window manager and application would be better integrated together and themeable. And redesigning the panel would be great, current look and function is pretty outdated. And I'd like to see more of gnome-do functionality inside other GTK+ apps. Maybe reducing login time a bit too. | Nil Gradisnik |
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| | | . | By making it have more options, more customisable. | Jon | . | Integration with Compiz, pratically every options of Compiz should be chosen from Gnome directly
Default shortcut for switching virtual desktops (I use Win+number_of_desktop)
Gnome-Do more integrated in Gnome (have an option to use it with Docky interface instead of gnome-panel and not together with it)
I don't use Epiphany, too much of a Firefox clone; I'd drop it altogether.
A default image viewer with less dependencies, browsing images with the mouse wheel and with a sidebar like the one in Gwenview for Kde | Gianluca | . | Task list could be like a doc (big icons instead of task name). It helps saving space. | Leonardo Bighi | . | A command line for my desktop - like gnome-do but able to lookup and execute actions in all applications, transparently.
Why does epiphany need a location bar if gnome-do can search for bookmarks and let you enter uris? | Michael Gratton | . | Native keyboard shortcuts (see Openbox). Nautilus is a UI that I work with; it is not a UI that vanishes. I actually find Thunar and PCManFM much more pleasant to use. In both cases the UI just gets out of the way and lets me get things done. | Anonymous | . | It should go its own way. No following other DE's anymore. More content focused. | Hylke Bons | . | By rejecting stupid totalitarian design decisions like the screen-savers not having options and embracing new concepts like web widgets, web integration, improved and cleaned-up IDEs with proper docs, and revamping storage interfaces (Nautilus is not suited for heavy file operations like "find all mp3's under this folder and it's sub-folders and move them to folder X" and also by something resembling "stacks" for file organization on the desktop. I don't use the desktop because it's always covered up, but I would like something like "Stacks" (Apple) to have a "top of the world" view of my files (and tasks, and contacts, etc). | Bruno Antunes | . | compact and Efficient | Anonymous | . | - semantic desktop: tags and file classification over directories
- clean and simple: few clicks or typings to reach the file or the exact menu/application
- not a complete change in the gnome-release history even if well improved news | davide | . | File renaming: Just like Mac/Windows = Without the use of the right button. | Hugo Mendes | . | Firstly gnome should stay gnome, not mac, win, or kde) And I hope there will be twitter client nicer than twitux ;) sorry 4 mistakes if any. | Lyosha | . | 3d desktop, high speed loading, more integration with clutter library.
It should be simple, powerful and nice to see (more theming features) | Luca Livraghi | . | I find myself using Gnome Do extensively these days. The menu is only useful when I need to use a program that I don't use often (looking for games, system utilities, etc.). I think the GNOME Shell effort is progressing in the right direction.
Overall, though, I'd say ease-of-use and consistency are the primary goals to aim for | Arun Raghavan | . | streamline/clean-up system administration/preferences menu.
system beep in more obvious place.
quick search for applications/places
improve lock screen and more flexible login.
more full-featured empathy
simple and straight forward video editor and importer.
simple and straight forward audio editor.
fork open office, do your own implementation. | Anonymous | . | More speed!! :) | Victor Mendonça | . | I think gnome works grade, but you could in fact improve its appearence, compared to KDE gnome as still a lot to work in terms of appearance | Anonymous | . | Gnome 3.0 should be focused on me and my documents and the people I communicate with. | Stuart | . | killer applications rocks, eg photo manager (forget f-spot, I don't believe mono and f-spot is not good enough) | lyman li | . | Better search features all over! | Shreyank Gupta | . | Gnome is not good in appearance. Improvement is needed in appearance. speed, efficiency are fine. | Tom |
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I don't use panels much and the ones I do have I use the little slider buttons to hide them horizontally. I wish this was more feature-full: I wish autohide could work horizontally, I wish you didn't have to have buttons on both sides if I only want to hide it on one side of the screen. I use several non-extended panels at the bottom corners of the screen (one for notification area and one for the menu) but they stay hidden most of the time, and they don't interact well with each other. If I were to put them side by side, and the notification area panel grew a bit with a new icon, the second panel rather than sliding sideways jumps up over the original panel. Also, to move them directly side by side is a challenge as they're not sticky; it seems as if I must carefully scoot the panel closer and closer to get to the edge. | Joe Gullo | . | Deskbar enabled by default, maybe better integrated. Better graphics, 2001 Windows XP looks better than 2009 Gnome.
Complete integration of IM's like Emesene.
Improved calendar applet, without the need of loading Evolution. | Luuk de Waal Malefijt | . | It would be great to have the ability to change the size of the taskbar list icons, i.e. the icon for the open application on the taskbar. Currently they are just too small and changing the panel height does not change the height of the icon. | Colin MacDonald | . | Eyecandy
Performances
Improve applications (F-Spot (!!), Rhythmbox, ...) and connection with oder devices (Phones, PDA, ...) | Elvis Dominguez | . | I would like to see improvements in the way we handle files and lauch applications. The way gnome-do does things is a good example, tought I would like to have a more integrated application than that. Window management needs improvements too, I would like to just drag a window and make it go to a diferent workspace, a bit like with compiz. Just an axample tought.
I really really would like to see a e-maill client less clutterd then evolution. I like evolution but, most of the times it's too much for so little things people. I know that's very hard, but one can dream :). Something like a stripped down evolution would be great! | António Lima | . | GNOME should change the desktop development approach, I know GNOME is very good in usability and accessibility, but GNOME haven't *changed* for almost 3 years. I love the simplicity of GNOME, but every new release of GNOME, I see nothing *new* (from an ordinary user's perspective). | Tinh Xuan Truong | . | Functionality is good, make it as pretty as KDE4 | David Banham | . | There is no excuse for the ugly desktop of gnome. Gnome is a bad copy of the dead and useless Apple 8-9 os. Along with microscopic icons at high rez., strange looking icons, police badge, stoplight, tiny things cannot identify, what are you hiding?
Linux may be for notebooks with lousy rez, maybe? Linux for e-mail only, design programs bizarre at best. | chuck | . | Just being faster and maybe more beatifull. :) | Arthur Furlan | . | I think that there should be a way to create custom views of files in Nautilus, something like evolution virtual folders, but based on metadata inserted in the files. For example, using EXIF data one could sort pictures taken in a given time interval (I'd rather have this done by the file manager than f-spot because EXIF data are easily portable, and Nautilus is running always); or OO.org metadata or mp3/ogg tags. | Anonymous | . | * the panel should die
* we NEED document centric file browsing/searching
* we need to look hard at GNOME Do, and integrate it or some of it's features | Anonymous | . | I believe in evolution, not revolution. Gnome shell have lot of interesting ideas and I think it is way forward. I would like to see more streamlined hardware access (multimedia devices, tv cards, MIDI keyboards, scanners). This work have begun in GNOME 2 so I would like to see continue that way. | Pēteris Krišjānis | . | - GNOME-do should become default
- notifications should be cleaned up somewhat
- Systray is too busy, we need a better way to access background programs
- Workspaces should be changed so they better match an activity-focussed approach: I define a task I wanna do and push the windows belonging to that activity to that workspace
- Empathy needs meta-contacts badly
| Jürgen Geuter | . | The Gnome 2.x series has been fantastic. I know many are hoping for drastic
changes, but I'm hoping the changes are smooth and subtle. I'm most excited
about Vala and making the Gnome stack more easily maintainable. | Ian | . | Put Epiphany/Webkit in a primary position for all webaccess related things. | Anonymous | . | A smaller, lighter file manager with a Miller Column Browser mode, like OS X.
I should have the option to make desktop icons appear on the right instead of the left, where they get hidden under every window I open.
Pango should expose more OpenType features to applications like Inkscape and The GIMP, like alternate glyphs, small-caps and oldstyle/lining numerals.
An email client that is to Evolution what Epiphany is to Mozilla Seamonkey.
My bookmarks should be in the Places menu directly, not tucked away in a submenu. | Anonymous | . | The top panels Icons gets moved around on reboots sometimes.. even though they are locked.
Performance, Speed and stability (even though I like it a lot already).
| Aktiwers | . | Have it´s own integrated eye candy, such as desktop cube, closing windows by burning them, etc. Also, it would be nice to be able to set a different wallpaper for each workspace.
If you don´t integrate each and every eye-candy or usability plugin for compiz-fusion and make them equally, or more, stable, then don´t break compiz-fusion support with the new panel. If if it becomes impossible to have all these awesome desktop effects, I will switch to KDE. | Anonymous | . | Document-based environment
System-wide Gnome Do-like launcher | Anonymous | . | GNOME needs to recognize the importance of web based services and take advantage of them. Realize that more people use GMail than Evolution and work to make integration seemless. Ditto for online calendars, todo lists, filesystems, etc. | Patrick Wagstrom |
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prefs/admin menu tidyup
better memory management in apps like gnome-terminal
better integration of apps, email/im/web2.0/social networking into gnome | Anonymous | . | it should be more configurable because i sometimes like to make my desktop look nicer at the cost of its usability; i'm the kind of person who would say "i like new KDE 4 (even though it's unusable due to its slowness) because it looks nice". functionality in Gnome should remain the same. it's perfect for me.
oh, the only other thing i'd improve is the speed of the whole environment; especially loading of the who Gnome and Nautilus | Dawid | . | elimination of obsolete libraries;
improved performance and less resource requirement;
more mono-free alternative apps, such as for tomboy and twitter/identi.ca clients;
quality mind-mapping tool;
complete gnome-office suite;
convenient dvd slideshow authoring tool; | | . | elimination of obsolete libraries;
improved performance and less resource requirement;
more mono-free alternative apps, such as for tomboy and twitter/identi.ca clients;
quality mind-mapping tool;
complete gnome-office suite;
convenient dvd slideshow authoring tool; | | . | more stable, auto detect the screen resolution, add some little games, move all the configure file together or just leave them in home directory. | | . | I'd like to see more "gloss". Vista feels a lot more polished than GNOME, a lot more modern, etc. I keep thinking about trying out KDE for this reason, but I also keep hearing about how broken KDE 4.x is so am a bit nervous about trying it (plus I'm pretty happy with most GNOME apps from a functional standpoint).
| Anonymous | . | Adding more web options | Rodney Pacheco | . | I honestly have no complaints with Gnome as it is but I'm definitely excited to see what you can come up with. | Josh | . | Suck less. | Anonymous | . | - The systray could use some "prettyfication". (The icons aren't equally spaced,...)
- Gnome-Do - like integration
- Faster starting Default Apps (cold start can take a couple of seconds, in KDE4+ this is almost instant) | Alexandro DC | . | Howard's shell concept is a good place to start.
GNOME should pay attention to some of the upcoming work from vendors like Intel around UI (June timeframe?).
I know I am probably the only one but I still totally use beagle at least 50 times per day. It works almost flawlessly for me. Search should be integral.
Netbooks and touch panel have terrible pointing-devices, finding a way to make keyboard based navigation more discoverable would be great (the likes of gnome-do but discoverable).
Find ways to attract new users, add more games (cool ones)? Introduce target segment features (parental control), deal with device synchronization much better smartphones (contacts, tasks, notes, sms, calendars, ...), upnp devices (xbox360, ps3, ...) and more.
Create a synchronization for our users between their mothership (main desktop or notebook) and their other devices INCLUDING the netbook. Treat GNOME 3 on the netbook as an extension of the main OS and apps on the mothership.
Keep metadata in sync, keep data collection in sync (with storage capacity in mind), behavioral based data synchronization (most recent used, most viewed, most rated, ...)
GNOME needs a new logo! That's should come as part of the GNOME 3 themes. Modernize the image and broaden the reach.
| Guy Lunardi | . | Gnome would do really well to consider "open source contributors" as one of the primary user bases, as a way to get the user base more easily engaged in improving the project. This "contributors" goes well beyond developers obviously. | Arjan van de Ven | . | Less thinking around boxed designs and more fluidity in the UI but only where it makes sense. | Anonymous | . | elimination of obsolete libraries;
improved performance and less resource requirement;
more mono-free alternative apps, such as for tomboy and twitter/identi.ca clients;
quality mind-mapping tool;
complete gnome-office suite;
convenient dvd slideshow authoring tool; | | . | Make Evolution more stable.
| | . | Clean up the interface, remove redundant items, simplify, simplify, simplify. | | . | less widget oriented and more task oriented - I've taken gnome-shell for a bit of a spin and like it alot, even though it's still in the process of finding it's direction in life | Andrew Jeffery | . | We need gnome-zeitgeist and document-centric apps! | Federico Mena Quintero | . | Make it easier to create menus (user created menus). Also, hot-key support for launching applications. I don't know if this is there but it would be nice to hit Ctrl+Alt+T and have my terminal launched. | andrew | . | Make application starting as fast as with gnome-do. Integrate presence and geolocation everywhere. Tear down the wall between webservices and desktop applications. And frankly: Make it VERY pretty and blingy, something that is essential to attract non-hardcore-users. | Andreas Proschofsky |
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-Better default icons
-Some visual efects (not too much)
-Better integration with notifycation system
-NetworkManager sucks++
| Federico | . | I think that Gnome's UI is pretty well done and the software that run on the environment have good support too. In general, I'd like to see some refinements on its UI and a stronger politic on how to release stable programs for running on it.
The rumors about the new filesystem navigation method sounds good too. Although I feel confortable with the actual way of organization and searching for files, I guess that it would be better to convince newbies to use Linux or another SO that runs Gnome.
Another interesting point is that it would be nice to see more native graphical tools written by the Gnome Development Team to administer, for instance, a Linux machine, letting the complex operations actually done at the Terminal for advanced users. | Henrique P. Machado | . | * gnome 3.0 must have gnome-do
* gnome-shell will be a great improvement
* better usabillity on apps for syncronization with handheld bluetooth devices (smart phones) | Mauricio Sousa | . | This isn't necessarily a requirement out of Gnome 3.0, but I'd definitely like to see improved multimedia frameworks or tighter integration of existing ones into the system. I'm talking about a comparable DirectShow equivalent with support for things such as AviSynth (or equivalent) and FFMpeg/MPlayer. Also, seamless extended desktop, output-to-projector without having to restart X. | Naresh V | . | More overall polish and visual refinement. Addition of more modern features. I like the gnome "simple by default" philosophy, but there are certain things that would be nice if they were configurable, or had their configuration exposed somewhere other than Gconf. I feel like Gnome is quite a solid base which does everything I _need_ it to, but it doesn't necessarily cater perfectly to my _wants_. Of course all the things I can think of _now_ are fluff. Desktop widgets, integrate Gnome Do. Stuff that OSX has, timed desktop background rotation with elegant fades between images. Creature comforts. Integration. Window manager stuff. A way to quickly and easily tile windows. have windows appear only on the screen / workspace they were created in? I'm really reaching here, gnome really suits me pretty darn well... | Quentin Hartman | . | The focus is lost every time. | javier | . | Streamlined workflow, more modularity, better app integration, lightweight services. | Sandy | . | The loss in configurability in recent releases has been very painful, please restore full control. System configuration tools which are part of a gnome desktop (can't tell if they've considered part of gnome itself) are absolutely dismal, NetworkManager/SystemConfigNetwork is the worst and should just be shot in the head, but other obvious tasks are either duplicated and/or done really poorly, like setting up lvms, host files, hostnames, etc. Evolution is a disaster beyond redemption, far worse than the junk it emulates, Outlook, a proper mail client would be nice, or rather "Unified Messaging Client". There seems to be no tool that handles all IM tasks well, for example empathy and pidgin don't do IRC sanely. Honestly, kde does integration for consistent behavior/look much better than gnome. | Anonymous | . | Improved interaction with GPS, mp3 players (iPod touch & Creative Zen MicroPhoto), smartphones (NokiaE71) | Leslie Lewis | . | I think it should be more easy to use. The Gnome in the screenshots which had been released is somehow close to my expectation. What's more, a dock at the bottom will be a good choice, instead of using a panel.
Well, again, I hope to reduce the actions for some usual operations, like opening a certain item in the menu. Gnome should learn more from Mac OS X. | Anonymous | . | More configuration options and less memory use | Anonymous | . | I think the best improvement will be integrate search engines with other programs, like video and audio players, photo managers.
For example, I use beagle/tracker to find files in my computer and to do it, these programs need to index all data I have (at least in my home folder). But fspot, gthumb, totem, rhythmbox and other programs don't know any search engine.
If I want to open a file in these programs I need to find them through nautilus and, some times, like fspot, rhythmbox and others, I need to build *another* index. (Fspot is the worse, once it likes to *copy* all your pics to its own directory if you don't pay attention to a little option)
About activity management, I'm happy with GNOME way, but taking a look at gnome-shell and sugar, I started to see another concept of desktop usability. | Lincoln de Sousa | . | Better disposition of the objects in the desktop.
Better menu organization.
Adding some compositing by default (using Compiz project maybe) | z13 | . | See the next edition of the GNOME Journal's Letter from the Editor...that's what I believe. | Jim | . | skin, themes, and i need a very fast desktop, please :D | Juazisco | . | More interactive in Nautilus for search into files,
Wallpapers don't crash when move de file to another location
| Juanpe | . | Just Integrate cool stuffs like gnome-do, blueman, and media-applet, it would also be nice if pulse audio problem is fixed | bigbrovar | . | Make the interface slightly less clunky.
Reaction times for clicks sometimes feel a fraction slower than they should be (Core 2 duo, 1.5GB RAM).
Gnome components seem to take up more room than other window managers. It would be nice to be able to configure this.
Panel needs some improvement in look and behaviour. | Rakesh Mistry | . | Adopt a central control panel for new users, but leave the old panels available.
Having all usable shortcuts on the desktop, so I can have a desktop without bars. Just use a hotkey to get to the desktop and a hotkey to get to a launcher like Gnome-Do.
A more information/document centric desktop would be nice. | Christoph Shipley | . | Less bling, more Just Works. | Jorge Castro |
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I use compiz - scale windows - for selecting windows across all workspaces using mouse=>top corner or CTRL+F12 and gnome-do (and reliable but less functional ALT+F2 launcher) helps do nearly everything by touching ALT+SPACE and start typing...
Watch macintosh. Netbook functions look nice (Elisa Media centre with functionality of Miro podcasting/amarok plugged in would be incredible) | Ben2talk | . | - better sound support
- to ask if someone is using bluetooth devices or not, and accordingly install the service, since bluetooth is not used that widely
- wider webcam devices support (how about targeted campaign aimed at major manufacturers?) | Robert Okadar | . | better mounting of filesystems over ssh (the connect to server, ssh thingy)
more (predefined) keyboardshortcuts/show them in menus
imagethumbails, "dont show if more than X image files" / "there are 100000 images, do you want to thumbnail them ?" | jacob | . | Litter evolution mail client
| Michael Garrido | . | with a cleaner GUI, improvements in speed. | Williams Orellana | . | More integration with Webapps (web 2.0) | Anonymous | . | Integrated Gnome-Do or Gnome-Do like features will we awesome. | Nicolas Valcarcel | . | Unified graphics toolkit; no more java programs looking ugly.
Better SMB compatibility
Better fonts
Increased integration with compiz | Thomas McKay | . | Include Gnome Do out of the box and make customizing taskbar and appearance easier. | Anonymous | . | Provide a standard of notifications similar to ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope's notifications, but have easy accessible options to do what you want with them instead of a static implementation.
Provide the calendar/ time applet in gnome-panel to be configured with other mail programs like Thunderbird/ Claws or Sunbird. So people have options to do what they want to do and keep track of instead of just using evolution and having it work with *just* the gnome suite.
More customization of how the date and time is viewed
Have more options with nm-applet, similar to wicd. Percentages, type of encryption, hardware ID, meter. (The icon is great, but also have an option to NOT have the icon appear and still connection to the default network(s)
No bulky menus or panels(like kde4.x.x). We've successfully entered into the
netbook phase a year or two ago. Having bulky panels, and menus wouldn't be nice. Even with a laptop with limited screen real estate.
Having the option to totally and successfully edit the menu options. Adding more root menus, or creating your own - being able to divide everything up if needed.
Having Deluge as the default Torrent application instead of Transmission. And, not using any mono apps as default applications since the framework depends on a lot dependencies. Unless there's a way to cut them down.
Having Empathy as the default messaging client.
What I've seen in Ubuntu lately with the transitions between distros is the different names of the same options in the menus. Sessions became Statup Applications. I don't like it, that change messes everything up with a lot of people. It did for me anyway. Not seeing sessions in the menu made me search for the menu option, it wasn't nice at all.
Nautilus - Having more customization in the UI. Similar to how the Firefox lets their users configure the UI in that program. If I had the choice, or if I knew how to configure Nautilus to be a lot more minimal I would do it. Smaller icons, names, or no names per icon, the ability to change the bar locations, and being able to add icons next to whatever bar. For example, putting the home icon beside the location bar. Removing icons if possible. When in browser mode, having the option to have favourite directories in a menu at the bottom left.
That's all i can think of right now. I'm sure I'll be able to think of a lot more in the future.
| Justin Coombs | . | As a visual;ly impaired person I would appreciate more control over the contrast and colours of the desktop. Transparency is an issue as is font size and the themes are often lacking sufficient range in choosing colours for good viability. | Anonymous | . | I think it will become more innovative , eye-candy and more usable. | Mahesh Mohan M.U | . | All can be improved. | Mario Lamas | . | Graphical stability, I find that after turning on effects and whatnot my computer tends to freeze and lockup. Though not as bad as KDE. also Gnome is a bit slow in opening some programs such as firefox and banshee, KDE is a bit faster (though still pretty much unusable for me) | Manuel A. Rodriguez | . | I would like to see more integrated user assistance where appropriate, particularly for complex advanced features like gconf-settings-manager. ( See Fedora's system-config-services as a good example: https://www.jero.cc/linux-doc/gnome/help/system-config-services/ml/images/system-config-services.png )
I would also like to see a searchable help system that is more advanced than yelp. We should look at MS Windows, Mac OS, and prominent websites to identify ways in which user help can be better delivered to users. | Jim Campbell | . | IMHO, what gnome needs is a huge look and feel upgrade. | Licio | . | + Allow an option for Macintosh like systemwide menubars wich free up screen space.
+ Improve presentation software such as open office so to produce more aesthetically pleasing results such as in Kino for Mac
+ Support for phones i.e. Nokia
| Anonymous | . | With these technologies integrated in the desktop:
- 3D (clutter or other)
- Search ()
- Online Services | Javier Jardón | . | Make more applications use the same underlying data structures, so I don't need to import music into Rhythmbox if it's already in Banshee
| Stuart Langridge | . | - Better apps integration
- Drop old deprecated stuff (bonobo and so on)
- Integration with web services in a trasnparent way | Anonymous |
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| | | . | plasma effects similar to KDE 4.x | Crhistian Peralta | . | - allow to directly store file in detachable store units (eg : right click -> store in -> usb drive)
- allow to set different wallpapers in each desktop
- allow to download new themes, wallpapers and other art from the configuration (eg: System -> preferences -> appearance -> theme -> download new themes), with different repositories enabled (gnomeart being the deffault)
- keyboard remapper: an easy interface to directly map keys to symbols (useful if i want to swap ctrl and cpaslock keys, for example) | Rayentray Tappa | . | It should be more convenient.. I don't use top panel at all. Customised the bottom panel instead, and increased desktop space. ;) | Jaisen Nedumpala | . | Tabs on Nautilus are very good, but the Back button on my mouse (Logitech G1) doesn't work in it (in Firefox I have no problems with that.)
The default Image viewer doesn't show animated gifs.
And, of course, improving the interface speed (such as opening menus, programs, the terminal and nautilus especially) is always welcome! | Anonymous | . | Integration | Flávio Martins | . | Build support for better video editing - easy to use applications. GIMP is too confusing, for e.g. | Nabeel Nizar | . | I here is my suggestion for the future gnome 3.0. I not totally knew to this discussion because I have already tried the gnome shell.
Maybe the gnome shell is a good idea, especially the concept of "activities". It would be great if my computer can understand what I am actually doing (in therm of activities and not just opening firefox) and display my data in relation with the activity I am doing at the moment.
For example in the list of frequent used application (the 5 displayed when you clic on activities) I would like the applications be a mix of the most frequent used and the most frequent used in this situation. I mean when I am doing python, my sql browser should be in this list whereas when I am checking my mails it shouldn't.
An other interesting point would be to have applets like in kde4 (plasmoid) that could be displayed in a dock and/or on the desktop. Those applet shouldn't be considered as windows when the button 'activities' is clicked.
Finally I haven't tried the new application for browsing your hard drive but it looks great. Nevertheless I think that the files related to the system or the software configuration should be displayed like in nautilus too because of their structure that is important for the software.
That's for my view. I trust in gnome and I'm sure 3.0 will be a great step in the future. | JAMINAIS Dorian | . | - framework for decent phone synchronization (something like isync for the mac) with gnome's apps
- consistent behavior between all Gnome's components - in some cases it does *not* happen
- GUI for editing system services
- GUI to manage hardware
- a simple way to package themes (one file only, not many for metacity, icons and whatever)
- GUI to install and see installed Fonts on the system, and where those are installed. | Ricardo Ramalho | . | Better menu organisation (such as applications menu), a better settings manager for control over the GUI and gnome. | Donald iljazi | . |
but fast | samuel | . | Reduce unnecessary window management options. What if the task list allowed multiple windows to be selected (like a set of tick boxes), with the selected ones tiling to fill the work area? Then, each workspace could show a different (possibly overlapping) set of windows.
Merge the title-bar with the top panel (or the menu-bar)—there's too much wasted empty space.
Replace in-application menus with something better—some users are overwhelmed by them or simply never explore them. For example, toolbar icons for commands that the user has used frequently, and a command line (like Gnome-Do, Firefox's awesome-bar or Firefox with Ubiquity) for everything else. | Greg K Nicholson | . | more productive, more customizable, more killer apps.
easier to configure/write gtk/metacity themes, gtk-engines should be improved as well.
gnome-shell is an exciting start, looking forward to it.
nautilus is lacking properties compared with dolphin.
a integrated backup app is needed for nautilus (timeline).
audio volume control better be independent of gnome-media, as it requires many useless dependents.
no more mono, as it's slow & bloated. | Anonymous | . | Provide a set of high quality widgets to programmers who in turn will create beautiful applications. The toolkit has to be really easy to use, customize and achieve whatever result the programmer wants. It needs bindings to high level languages.
Mono should become a first class citizen, along Python. | Anonymous | . | the color of the front desktop should have more life ,more impressive, that's all. | D@n | . | Search was improved really well. Gnome-do is a great native application also but I would love to see a better organization of the menu icons, a better description of what they do, I find it hard to remember where or how i configured specific options sus as GDM screens or keyboard shortcuts.
Audio configuring is for me one of the hardest task to do, there are at least 2 possible ways to do it (from the taskbar and from the audio menu), sometimes this is really confusing.
The screensavers are a nice thing to see when my computer is idle, configuring the screensaver has not many options, for example the picture folder screensaver is set to a specific path that cannot be easily changed. | Emmanuel | . | Nothing fancy. I love gnome-do, but I don't think it should be default. Don't try and reinvent the way we interact with computers, just refine it and make it work. Present the simple options at the forefront for everyday users, but also provide an easy way for powerusers to tweak everything they want to without having to trawl through configuartion files.
I am also actually only 16, but there was no under 18 option.
| Christie Grinham | . | Keep it simple and don't add bling just for the sake of it (e. g. nice to look at animation with no real purpose - gets annoying after the third time).
| Anonymous | . | Gnome 3.0, i think that the version it will be more fast and the major support. | Christian | . | Cell Phone integration is a big issue - more people own cell phones than any other device. (Not an easy problem, but important)
Better desktop control/lockdown (Pessulus etc) would sure be helpful | furicle | . | Don't know if this is a Gnome or general Linux issue, but codecs and better interoperability with audio and video files would be great. | Mark Steele |
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| | | . | First and foremost, Gnome should stay out of the way of the application that has focus, (most of the time being the web browser, I imagine). Realize that the world is moving to SaaS, so perhaps embrace technology such as Mozilla Prism, Mozilla Weave. Why doesn't Gnome provide any SaaS? Synchronize multiple Gnome profiles, Micro Applications like Firefox Add-Ons could be hosted and installed on demand. I have also always felt like many full applications can be installed on demand, an example is Evolution, I use Gmail, and don't use evolution ever. also the Palm pilot program, I never use it, why can't it be installed on demand? Furthermore, I think work needs to be done to improve taskbars when they are left and right, instead of top and bottom. This will help a ton when using gnome on netbooks for example. | Christian Page | . | kill bonobo and improve the panel arquitecture
| Juan Carlos Inostroza | . | Try listening your users instead of your overgrown egos. And before you try to create next survey, try not to make another example of how not to make a survey, you might even get reasonable answers. | Mickey Mousey | . | Lighten it so it can continue to compete with and be used on all pcs but allow scaleability for newer computers | Chris Powell | . | I Think Gnome is good the way it is now, but all improvements will be good accepted, that is why they are called *improvements*. | Carlos J. Delgado | . | montar automaticamente los disco duros y mejorar el sonido | jorge | . | I would love a right click on desktop for root menu option. | Scott | . | major interface for user | Nestor | . | Lowering barriers for developers.
For example, drop autotools, bring cmake or other (like KDE). | ympostor | . | I like Gnome-Do and would like to see it or its ideas in Gnome 3.0.
| Anonymous | . | I hope GNOME 3.0 will provide a powerful toolkit(GTK+3) and a basic, elegant desktop environment with improved user experience. Such as effective window manager, and it will be better that user can choose to use Compiz and integrated with GNOME Shell better.
For others, the HIG should be better and make all GTK+ application beautiful, although some applications don't have been well designed. | TualatriX | . | better game compatibility | Anonymous | . | I would vote for _not_ making the Spatial mode in Nautilus as the default behavior.
Although eye candy is nice, I suggest that Gnome 3.0 not focus as much on the "glassy, MS Vista-like" effects as KDE 4.x has. I'm more concerned about how it works than how it looks . . . Also, that the new version no be so resource-hungry that older Linux boxes would need a hardware upgrade in order to use it productively.
| David Pardue | . | Yes, It may be improved. Btw, I don't use the top panel, I customised the bottom panel instead. So I can save the desktop space. :) | Jaisen Nedumpala | . | More Devices Support
More useful and powerful programs
A forum that can talk about it in many languages
A good support web site
| asy | . | Appearance, performance | Ze Long | . | Better user experience.
Not only programmers should involve in this project, but also those artists and UI designers. | JimHu | . | a window manager can scale window when screen resolution is low. for example, evolution setting window is large than 1024x600, window manager need to scale this window less than 1024x600 (maybe can refer to compiz) | Anonymous | . | Speed up
More compact UI. | harryxu | . | font | Zhang Shuoning |
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Global Menu
Fast, and stable | nixzhu | . | Fix bugs and annoyances for users (please don't change much). Cleanup APIs and get rid of the old cruft for developers. Small incremental improvements! Please don't make Gnome 3.0 a KDE 4.0! | Olivier Bilodeau | . | A rendering engine at least with ARGB support.
Maybe Gnome can use WebKit-like open source rendering engine.
More intergration between programs,such as when I compose a mail in Thundermail, I can easily pick up my pictures in my local harddisk | Kevin | . | for windows | Jeeghin | . | faster | haifeng | . | Incldue gnome-do function | shunhsiung shih | . | Simple, Fast, Architecture | Anonymous | . | Support Input Method better so that I can enter either Chinese or English in any GTK application instantly, instead of switching IM several times to get the IM I want, or switch to other applications first then switch back to let IM panel show correctly. The input method problem is quite annoying! No matter in Windows or Linux I am bothered by this. | Yuan Yijun | . | The biggest problem of Gnome 2.x for me is that it starts too *slow*. I have to wait some ten seconds before the wallpaper shows and panel gets ready. Now I prefer Xfce4 and wmii3, just because they are faster.
Thank you for your hard work. I am contributing my silly artworks to gnome-look.org, and I am looking forward to a smart Gnome3. | chisiyuan | . | change the default size of open file dialogue box. it's always so tiny. | Anonymous | . | something like Gnome Do is great! | maxint | . | * Better visual effects - KDE4 could be an example
* Better support of devices
* More customizable components and options
* The ability to directly fetch wallpapers, themes, and so on, from internet (again KDE4 does this well - they even enabled multi-thread downloading) | Jimmy Yao | . | appearance(not a mac,not a win,but gnome)
performance
ease to customize(major user can only download theme rather than create their own,even they have the such an ability)
tiny,yet pewerful through extending/plugins,maybe
tiny,again | yfel | . | I want there may be less integrated applications, because some application I would never use them. I think Linux users more like to compsite thire systems by themselvs.
For example, I use vlc or smplayer instead of totem. | Micheal Lee | . | 1. easier to manage autostart program, 2. less memory/CPU usage | Dig | . | 0. (I've used gnome for nearly 2 years and I like it)
1. why can't I remove all the panels? (I'll use awn)
2. why can't I edit/copy/cut gnome menu items by right-click on them?
3. why desktop gadgets isn't officially supported? (like KDE)
| Anonymous | . | user experience | Anonymous | . | 1, easier for extending
2, easier for theme development
3, global menu like Mac OS does
4, well integrated with the popular web based applications/services. | Richard Y.S. HUANG | . | A Awesome mode? | DaNmarner | . | . | Anonymous |
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| Anonymous | . | UserInterface is a big problem. | Ruisin Jin | . | More good looking. More eye-candy apps. | Kan Zang | . | Just can't think about this... mmm. How about improve the IME? | biAji | . | i hope wayland project could finish before Gnome3 comes.
i hope a dock in Gnome3 | xinyu | . | A dock may be integrated. | Timothy Qiu | . | better, faster and more easy-to-use | Garbin Huang | . | Make me lazy. | Zhang Jia | . | add some most frequently used programs in to some where easy to click. | Anonymous | . | 1. An official widget system, so that I can take note, twitter, check mail.
2. Better interaction between programs. | James | . | Here follow the list of what I think to be goods of it is added/improved in the next Gnome:
- Javascript binding for Gnome APIs
- More features that are visible to users every new release
- More improvement for Epiphany to replace Firefox
| Duong Thanh An | . | gnome-terminal | Jinzhu | . | has a built in Scale mode(scale in compiz or expose in mac)
has a built in dock like launcher (Gnome do does the good job)
more eye candy,less resource consuming (is it possible? :))
| cn_oasis | . | Maybe. We will see... | Anonymous | . | simple ，functional and human！ | tao | . | faster, less bloat in the programs inside gnome. | Robb Munson | . | I hope better integration with web application (gmail, google calendar, google docs, ... etc). | Anonymous | . | more shining window widget | galeki |
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1, include a search, like gnome-do, or mac something....
2, something like windows7's power bar style
| pantherqin | . | I'm a chinese guy,I can't express my mind in english ,but the most ting I want Gnome improved is Appearance! | keke | . | kiss, useful and intuitive, then eye candy. | ly | . | RGBA, globalmenu is the most improvement i think | jarryson | . | Like Mac | Zhu Li | . | the interoperability with windows and smart phone OSs, UI and efficiency.
Thank you. | 陈若愚 | . | the apple's Mac OSX is good example I want | Anonymous | . | smaller,faster,more beautiful | wubuntust | . | more configurations | Shin Tan | . | I hope gnome to be a simple OS interface without so many packages and dependence! | ryeboy | . | Don't know | Reiase | . | Maybe, faster. especially login. | Xhacker | . | Simplicity and performance | Liu Bin | . | Support more devices
Look much cooler
More convenient to sort files | Angus Yann | . | Is there a more smart way to mange the windows which I open and to switch between maximized windows? I think it will be more important.
And still some difference exists between using local folder and remote folder(like samba) | liu ming | . | humanial interface | YuChao | . | more configureable while easier use | amoblin | . | better art work | Anonymous | . | 3D look & feel
More Apps | Leon Lee | . | 3 | init_6 |
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| | | . | Native support for dockable window controls would be nice. Also, stabilizing the API to the level that makes commercial ISV's feel confident of using it & adopting it would help. IOW, promote use of GTK to commercial vendors more so that they don't have to choose between QT and GTK. Nothing wrong with QT technologically, but I don't think having two dominant toolkits is helping ISV's develop Linux apps. I'd like just one to emerge as the dominant toolkit, and I want GTK to be it for licensing reasons. QT may be more advanced, but I don't think one has to pay to use GUI toolkit to develop an application.
This may seem nothing to do with Gnome, but having the commercial apps look native in Gnome would boost desktop experience a lot. IOW, Gnome, as it stands today, is already pretty good for me. | Jesse.Xu | . | search files more quickly and more convenient | Justin Li | . | speed! | auv | . | pretty appearance, humanization operation & design, more devices support, like MS Pocket PC etc. | tiger.lee | . | Lower memory,faster,customizabler, | Han Gang | . | Do not change too many things, please. | Lechuan | . | Press the "WIN" key to drop down the menu in the top panel. | Anonymous | . | 1.speed
2.speed
3.speed | youwater | . | 1.Maybe it can more smaller......
2.More beautiful but not speciosity
3.Daster and faster
4.Develop gnome apps can easier and easier | tumashu | . | be faster | Qian Chengyang | . | Please, make the items of top panel editable.. I mean "Applications/Places/System"..
These ones remain english when switching OS language. So I think it could be much easier for user to RENAME them manually. | Vitaly | . | more powerful, more beautiful. | Bill | . | More custome options. | Anonymous | . | great | dweng | . | Add a search like windows 7. | Ross WU | . | i hope it will be faster and more beautiful... | eddie | . | Copy and text input work smoothly between applications. | Derek | . | I have used KDE4.2 for about a month. I think KDE is somewhat better than gnome. I hope gnome can do better, like polish it's desktop to make it more beautiful, and add some convinient tools to help users, such as some font management program. | niuniu | . | interface mashup customize | xuniu | . | More powerful instant messenger. Pidgin is still lack of some features like video chat. Better integration with current application to existing webservice, for example, tomboy should sync with some online notebook services like google notbook. Faster firefox, it is very slow sometimes. | Ziggy |
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Simple interface will improve the performance of use.
Less buttons, more menus, more shortcut keys.
Accept or reject functions is important.
The basic functions is important.
More functions like rename mulitple files. Less functions like tab in nautilus. | Xuqing Kuang | . | A gnome-panel that can be put to the left while the task bar window titles can still be read upright. Good for small wide-screens. Last time I checked my distro it cannot be done. | Sing | . | UI
| Anonymous | . | 1. Have Expose built into metacity compositing. Also create other effects like minimize, maximize, . . ., kde already has a bunch of that.
2. Implement Global Menu as an option.
3. Allow application-wise keyboard shortcut handlling, of course, the more shortcuts the better.
4. Get Meta/Win/Command key to work with/without combos as keyboard shortcut.
5. Have application/place menu built into nautilus (right-click), like the ones in fluxbox and xfce, etc.
6. Implement a native keystroke launcher like Google Desktop/ Gnome Do/ . . . --- it would be nice to integrate the launcher with a dock if global menu is in use.
7. Add more default options in the nautilus right-click menu, especially when right-clicking desktop, like the ones in OpenSolaris 2008.11
8. Implement middle-click (or scrolling) on the desktop to switch between windows/workspaces
9. Implement a separate left click on empty desktop if not cropping (drag-and-drop) that would bring up a special section of the nautilus right-click menu, say, applications/places (this would work better if the application/place menu is moved here)
10. Enable users to combine multiple windows into one, that is, one window with several tabs to switch to those individualized former "windows".
11. Use icons extensively, in order to replace window title.
12. When not having global menu, have the file menu replace the window title bar (we could have icons instead of windows). If an icon is not available, switch to old mode, and do not display any icon in the window titile bar, nor do window list.
13. Native support for latex/mathml for document processing (fonts, but not images) desktop-wide.
14. Rewrite Tomboy Notes (GNote), as the default note taking application. Allow table and picture insertion, and native mathml/latex support.
15. Fix epiphany extensions and add features like proxy profile, also improve mouse gestures and site permissions.
16. Modularize GConf, or alternatives, without having to maintain a single large %gconf-tree.xml . Have a base xml and several organized schemas would do. No need to emulate windoze registry.
17. Have applications able to use opentype fonts system-wide, no exceptions like openoffice.org .
18. Have evince work with multiple formats, like text files, odf, . . . like Mac OS X Preview, and have evince work properly with Acrobat 3D, forms, and other dynamic content in Adobe Reader. Also build a global document format conversion service that allow instant conversion of files, say odf to pdf, without having to rely on application. Some command-line utilities is also preferred. (Dont have to launch the monstrous openoffice.org everytime)
19. Global spell-checking, syntax checking . . .
20. Allow complex toolbars with tabs.
21. Make gnome more modular. Just dont rely on GDM to load up certain plugins for the desktop to function.
22. A unified interface for humans in gnome configuration (not gconf-editor)
23. Able to replace Qt file dialog wherever necessary. Help improve qgtk, especially with rounded scrolling buttons.
24. Improve transparancy --- Qt is getting ahead of us.
25. An integrated native office suite, not openoffice.org, not abiword, but, gnumeric + ? + ? + . . .
26. vector icons everywhere
27. Able to daemonize every application running.
28. Improve gnome-dictionary to support on-disk dictionary format, and support for wikis (go beyond dictd) and possibly make it a desktop-wide service.
29. Able to launch website as applications (like Prism, Adobe AIR, . . .)
30. Make evolution start faster, it almost rival openoffice.org in the aspect . . .
31. Support for more archive formats, like tlzma, pax, for archive mounting (And please have archive available in /media/* but not ~/.gvfs/* )
32. The last one --- just hope --- unify with kde in underlying frameworks. Maybe there're some other I have left over . . . Feel free to ask questions about each item . . . | Anonymous | . | Appearence Much Better: for example, the icons of file, directory should be more artistic | rainconut | . | GNOME should be made much easier & it should be given some more cosmetic changes as the plasma desktop in KDE 4.X. | Cool G5 | . | Eradicate MONO. :-) | Anonymous | . | User Definition of the Indexed Files, for example only index in /home or /media/. the systemfiles like man files is not necessary to be indexed. | Anonymous | . | 1. need something like "gnomedo". but is not writen in mono.
2. gnome is too large. that's the general reason why some people choose xfce4 but not gnome. | Ke Fei | . | The dock instead of the taskbar. | Ji Shan | . | I have no idea about it. | Qx | . | sure, I wish it could faster and more powerful. | Anonymous | . | More eye candy, make it pleasing for new comers to Gnome. | Kevin | . | easy DIY for style.
抱歉，我的英语太差。
我想说希望在Gnome下，能够比较容易的制作桌面主题。 | liu.wanfang | . | More customizable | Anonymous | . | global menu bar
more visible space | Anonymous | . | i like mac os interface
is easy to use
easy to chosse what i being use application
if there is a special interface for choose application
is good | albert yeung | . | Gnome is cool. I like it more than KDE, but while Vista and OS X have issues, they are both slicker and better. Still, I am surprised by how much Gnome has improved over the last couple of years. However, there are too many bugs and annoyances with Gnome, and Linux is first and foremost and server environment, not a desktop environment, in my view. | Patrick | . | the most important is stability of the new version, and a clear look interface will be better. | geenoc | . | art work | Anonymous |
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| | | . | Improve look and feel to a much more fashion style but still easy to use and stable | Alan | . | stabilility, appearance | Frank Sun | . | I think it will be more beautiful, more practical! | yancey | . | a dock like Mac ( one option: integrate gnome-do, for it has a dock face and can search files and programs easily)
a better file browser
a better notify area | Altman | . | The most I want be improved in Gnome 3.0 was the top bar(gnome-panel) and the file manager(nautilus).
I like use compiz-fusion with dock, cairo-dock was a very good but I want a dock which is from gnome not from others because the style was very different and the look also has some different. I also like the globe menu bar like Mac OS, I think this can be a option for the one who need. I know that have people who doesn't like Gnome look like Mac OS.
And I think nautilus need to be improved a lot, Just like the preview function, pictures can work perfectly but movies are not. Always the movies can not be preview. I also want a function that like the music files, move the mouse on it can preview the movies in nautilus. The speed also is a problem of nautilus, it always become no respond.
Finally, I just want a fast, use less memory and beautiful gnome. I think gnome can make some part be optional, let user choose what that want to install. And make gnome become more flexibility. | Jimmy | . | Transition from manually having to search through information to computer assisted searching and filtering (documents, e-mail, whatever) | Anonymous | . | An integrated desktop search software, which can search the content of the files | Sui Qingyu | . | speical visual effect without hardware accelearation. I will appreciate CSS support for the appearance.
Menu for each programs can be hidden or collected in some specific area like how Mac does. Because menu always take space no matter what application you are using, while some of them are meanlingless. Gnome, as a GUI framework, should have some specific, system wide, ways to operate this menu. | Anonymous | . | Speed should be faster, hardware requirement should be lower. GUI design | Anonymous | . | beauty | kagami | . | Improving Compiz stability | Manuel Fontán | . | IMO some statistics AI is necessary. Desktop and panels can be more flexible as well. | Behnam Esfahbod | . | INTEGRATION is the magic word here ;-)
- GNOME-Do like support in applications, (start) menus, file-browser, etc
- Desktop-Search integration
- system-wide PIM data like address book (what about akonadi-gnome?)
- better tools for syncing of cell phones / smartphones
- and, of course, more bling for usability reasons (like zooming, and move animations), clutter support, etc
| Anonymous | . | Too many applications do the same work. Pulseaudio is good but not well integrated.
The menu system is clunky at best. Gnome-do should become much more prominent.
Keyboard shortcut management shouldn't require gconf hacking. Font should be easier to install | bidossessi sodonon | . | quickly, brightly. | black smith | . | Keep it simple and stupid | Anonymous | . | Nautilus....suck | Shellex Well | . | More beautiful
add "new tab" tool button in nautilus tool bar.
more fast, less memory
more powerful voice control | kelven xu | . | faster (text) rendering engine.
more powerful font management.
more of specific OS friendliness.
a better www browser.
more eye candy things. | Anonymous | . | don´t know | Anonymous |
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More function's provided.
Less resources are taken.
Easily been optioned.
| YHM | . | I wanna more clear truetypers for chinese, and speed in my laptop.
because my laptop is not very old ,but it's performance in windows not very well,so i decided to change it and use the Debian .
i am a software engineer and i need more fast machine always, if the desktop environment becomes too large , only change my computer and it's not a good news for me . and i wish a new and useful charge manager for my battery.
thx gnome developer
i like gnome
| tuoyu.zhang | . | 1.keyboard shutcut
2.more fonts
| YinFeiFei | . | quick | secretzero | . | Mac-like menubar and work for java app as well | Anonymous | . | It should have more advance settings for user.
better GUI
lighter & faster
desktop effects
| Yunkwan | . | Well,it needn't be the most beautiful, but keep the efficiency | Anonymous | . | I need a fast start up gnome | herain | . | Visualy. I would like easy customization of the desktop. Something link preconfigured thems/desktop, so you don't have something to build on. | Anonymous | . | have a good sign | orez | . | more useful | Harold.Luo | . | contains the global menu bar | pan zhiyao | . | improve gnome-panel
display a init window in screen center for metacity | Anonymous | . | Better colour management, a logical and easy system for working consistently with ICC-profiles system wide (installl, remove and wiew). Better built in font management (a lesser problem than the first, but would be an improvement). | Anonymous | . | interface | Siqiuyi | . | application | gorf | . | Appearance
Speed
usability
creativity | Ted | . | I hear someone say gnome3 will built by clutter,I'm very eager to see that happen.it's very cool. | wangjl | . | I looove the look of KDE4. Serious shake-up should be done with the artwork otherwise gnome won`t be able to make the next step. We may prefer usability over look but as people say first impression is the most important... | Anonymous | . | would be great if Gnome can integrate with gnome-globalmenu: http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ | Kov Chai |
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web develop tools--wywiwyg----like dreamweaver
web design tools-- to design web style--like photoshop
| fortruth | . | Look like the Mac,plz.
The Dock and gnome-do is good. | Evan | . | Fancy UI. Better Code reuse. Keep stable. | William Lee | . | more beautiful | changyuan | . | stable, fast and beautiful look are the most important.can we have some convinent and powerful applications like keb,kdevelop...etc? | Du Hui-Jiang | . | New Idea GUI
Easy to Use | Bargi | . | File manager should be more powerful and elegent, just like dolphin | Raymond | . | panel fixed with widescreen -- I mean maybe we can put it to the left side of the screen by default.
font configuration application is needed!!!
1. to install new font
2. to change the rendering order of different fonts such as to use which Chinese font first when choose an English based font.
integrate gnome-do into gnome
abandon composite, but to integrate compiz-fusion into gnome since it is maturer and there is no need to do repeated work(gnome is not openbox). (I don't think kwin effects is easily reached by metacity) When get a fusion, they can work more seamlessly (drivers is not the barricade, we can set a option as ubuntu to enable compiz or not)
I think it's a win-win choice for gnome and compiz-fusion.
enrich the functions in mouse right click -- so it is a choice to hide menu in panel as enlightenment.
enrich gadget -- now I am distressed with opensuse 11.1 + python 2.6 + no gdesklets
More compelling panel maybe.
borrow ideas from e17 and kde4 maybe.
Thank you very much for reading so much.
I am a student from LUG, USTC, China, and these tips are enlighted using gnome in our daily work, not only by me, but all the friends who are anticipating the evolution of Gnome. We use several desktop environment or windows manager, and most of us are tyros who'd like to point out the ticklish question at the first glance.
Wish you treat the proposal carefully. Thank you. | Johnny Schu | . | Faster, More Customizable, File search is to be made better and faster using database, better documentation so as to help newbies. | Anoop Jacob Thomas | . | more efficience | Anonymous | . | thanks for doing that. | iSingle | . | I like Compiz and the Mac OS menu in task bar. | Liang Ding | . | The font- especially the Fonts of East Asia...i wish it can be a little more varieties...
It is not light enough yet,and laptop's powermanager is not very powerful to control the fans and sth.
May X be lighter and lighter but more and more pretty!...Yeah,a dream...
| Ranmocy | . | more beatiful | chenlong | . | contiune the gnome 2.x and the other people development the gnome 3.0,two part plan | zhen tian | . | I want have a pleasantly surprised | jioyo | . | speed up | bob | . | Better quality control | Anonymous | . | Adjust to the current user - not a "generic" one based on a sociological survey ;-) You simply can't sum up and to a mean of users without alienating most of them.
E.g. Have an option to remove main menu and use gnome-do (minimize moving the hand from keyboard to mouse all the time). I hate losing focus while I type (even if this does not happen as much as a few years ago) or when I can't see a keyboard shortcut to an UI task I want to do.
Then I suppose the shell should also be usable without using any keyboard too (for my mirror-self ;-) e.g. mouse and/or touchscreen only.
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| | | . | better preferences,more options to choose from when customizing an application's behavior . | Rami | . | Don't make any GNOME Shell or Zeitgeist. Make current GNOME flexible in every part.
Allow customizing everything with an user friendly interface.
Compared to KDE4, GNOME Shell sucks, sorry. I used to use GNOME, I love GNOME 2, but KDE4 + Compiz i perfection for me.
Strange, but I fell in love with KDE4, even I don't use it all the time though. Know why? it's simpler to make GNOME beautiful. | Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek | . | I like the direction GNOME 3.0 is headed at the moment. There are some new exciting features, and still a focus on stability. | Odd-rationale | . | At first sorry for my bad english!
At second let me say a very big thanks for gnome to all developers :)
I think gnome need some small/big improvment and polish for a better usability, but its still the best DE :).
I. Nautilus search : Its must to be more representative i mean i want to serch for a file and iam a simple user i click on search button an the search is run in the folder where iam. I think a popup or something can be good too choose the search place.
I mean :
1.search in this folder
2.filesystem
3.this drive that drive, home etc...
The simple users dont know whats happening.
When the nautilus seraching i need some progressbar or something to see whats happening how search is going now i just see an animation on the right corner what is tell me nothing about whats happening.
So a littlebit more representative and more usable search.
II. In Nautilus let simple user see the free space always. If I click on a folder or a file the freespace text gone. Why? Let users see and know always this info. Its important! Its ok on statusbar i think.
III. Select multiple files. Yes the old developers and "skilled" users know how to select multiple files. But simple users dont. I try the kde's dolphin its solve this problem. So I prefer the Dolphin way in Nautilus. A little icon on the right up side with a +,- icon can be pretty good.
IV. The size of the controls. I use gnome on destop laptop and on netbook too. On a desktop i use a big resolution 1680x1050(I mean big for me) every control is close to good size(a little bigger :]) . But on my laptop and netbook the resolution is smaller. Here comes the controls the buttons,text boxes, fonts ,toolbar icons are simply too big.
I prefer a slider under the themes or somewhere in the theme changer app to resize all controls (icons in nautilis) with the fonts or one by one. Like under the mouse cursor menu. If I change the dpi its just change the fonts size but not the icons size dont change. Let the all controls size can be changed at one place in easy way. Maybe automatically change controlls size to resolution size?
V. Some new professional theme and new(scalable where not now)icons against or next the old ones(where its need).
Any other good usable idea dont come in our mind :)
Thanks for the Gnome.
Best Regards:
Team of H. Bt.
| Team of H. Bt. | . | I use openSUSE's modified GNOME menus and Control Center and feel it works much better than upstream. Please take a serious look at those and consider improvements for GNOME 3. Other things I would like to see is better integration with social networking websites. Apps like Gwibber and F-Spot's Flickr and Facebook exporter are nice, but what would be awesome is to import photos and automatically be asked what websites I want these photos to go to, etc. | Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy | . | Even though Gnome is extremely functional it looks rather archaic compared to others. | Anonymous | . | Make the Gnome Slab Menu the default Gnome Menu. | Kennon Keoseyan | . | I would like a control panel for advanced settings, without having to resort to the gconf editor. Gconf reminds me too much of the Windows Registry. | Mark Sumner | . | Solve stability problems (pulseaudio crashes taking down the desktop, etc...) | Dan Elder | . | Allow the calendar to be easily manipulated by any program, not just integrated with Evolution. | Anonymous | . | 1.attractive new gui
2.applications more intergrated w/ each other
3.new theme-artistic guidelines | Anonymous | . | Please make it possible to set Monday as a start of the week without locale hackery. A simple option will do.
Then, please make it start faster. It takes too long after login to get to a workable state.
Thank you. | Leonid Mamchenkov | . | Add Qt 4.5 as optional dependency to GNOME (like Mono is today). I use some Qt apps and some integration with other GNOME apps would rock. | Anonymous | . | I wish Gnome will integrate a software like 'Tubolunch' which runs in Windows.
When I push hot key, the 'Turbolun' window appears.
There are some group of Grids, I can define program shortcuts in grids, and also define type in every group.
eg. define Group 1 as Internet, There are 'Firefox' shortcut etc.. in the 'Internet' {group 1}
If want to know detail, you can use google search for more.
I think it is very good for us.
We can use the hot key to open the 'Turbolunch', and search the program shortcut which we need and is grouped by.
It can save my time.
Thank for your reading and supporting.
Best wish. | Ye Runfa | . | More quick to use,and more cool to watch. | lemon | . | I would like to see nautilus integrate a shell and more functionality. More consistent cd/dvd burning. | Adam | . | more customizability | Anonymous | . | Faster flash. Better power managwment, Mandatory desktop effects. | Anonymous | . | The speed of GNOME will be improved. | Anonymous | . | Only one panel should be used by default. The second panel clutters the workspace. | Anonymous |
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| Randy Van Mieghem | . | I prefer gnome over any other desktop enviroment. I have tried other but keep coming back. Keep up the good work! | Robert | . | Possible improvements:
- offer new ways to switch between opened windows: something like OS X "Exposé" triggered by a keyboard shortcut would be greatly welcomed. I know its available in Compiz and I don't want to use that, but should be implemented as a Gnome feature already.
- unifying some important keyboard shortcuts. For instance some apps can be closed using Ctrl+W, others with Ctrl+Q and all of them also use Alt+F4. Since Alt and F4 are so far away, I prefer to use something with Ctrl but depending on the app I have to use either Q or W with it. Make it consistent already !!
In one word, Gnome 3 should provide more usability: focus on the basics and provide ways to be efficient in everyday use.
Keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts !! | Apelete Seketeli | . | Do not confuse people by calling a "start menu" overlay a "shell". Do not clutter the desktop.
KISS
Remember UNIX principles and do not integrate tools that do not need to be or do not work together. | anzan | . | Improve Network Manager | HuangMing | . | File search GUI for normal user. Like give a interface wrapping "find" command. | Wang Ning | . | The default theme be more beautiful.
Because ArchLinux does not has its own theme for Gnome (If It has, I am sure I will do not like it two) and I don't like Ubuntu's (Fedora etc) default theme.
Clearlook is very good, but can be improved. | Weiwei He | . | running faster, better apps intergration | stan | . | global menu
| ZengHao | . | Speed. I don't really care about special effects. I need raw speed and clean interface with less clicks to achieve a task. | Anonymous | . | Get rid of deprecated code to reduce size, and improve speed. Get rid of the distinction between the Adminstration and Preferences menus, and instead group items like Mandriva's control center (or Yast) does. | Anonymous | . | Fast! | Anonymous | . | smart menu and command;
improve speed;
reduce memory consume;
| Robin | . | Ability to tile windows.
In Clock/calendar applet: ability to use a calendar other than Evolution (e.g. iCal, Sunbird)
Integrated backup/restore
| Anonymous | . | I wish the program integrated with Gnome to be speedy | tan | . | MORE FASTER. | PABLO IGLESIAS | . | Better visual desing in the interface. | Anonymous | . | Boot speed!! it should be faster~~~ | iile | . | Decide on which Gnome Scratchpad ideas to focus on for the next release - Radial poup menus,etc.... | blaise | . | Don't screw it up. It is simple and understandable, even for non-geeks. Don't do a KDE 4.0! | Anonymous |
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| | | . | Better support for syncing devices. It has been far too long in the Linux world for us to STILL not be able to sync our mobile/PDA/smartphone with Gnome applications.
Why can't I find a *good* Gnome app for editing movies/films/videos.
Something NEEDS to be done about how Gnome looks. It still feels like something from the early 90's. | Anonymous | . | A more cohesive set of applications like in KDE including educational software. An application to easily make themes. Optional right click menus like in *box and XFCE. iPhone support in rhythmbox. Official media center akin to elisa. Different wallpaper for different workspaces, and speed improvements. Merge or be cohesive with GNOME-Do and openoffice. | Raphael Reyna | . | look & feel
IM programs
mutimedia program | Feng Zhu | . | integrate powertop like application with gnome for laptop user's
and make GNOME single panels or any revolution
we like change | Ujjwol | . | Better integration of the window manager, desktop, and panels. | Anonymous | . | There are very few things that bother me with the current version of Gnome. But integration with a few apps is disappointing. For example, when downloading a link in firefox, if the file-type is associated with a program (but meme type isn't established), firefox opens a nautilus dialog allowing you to search the file system (i.e. you have to go to /usr/bin to find the associated program). My point is that a few things could be done to allow for easy integration between apps. In my example, it would be much easier to have firefox open a dialog with a menu that's essentially the Applications menu, listing all the main apps. Gnome can easily do this without alienating power users who don't won't an eye-candy interface.
My one other complaint relates to modern graphics. Simply said, Gnome needs to make the transition to SVG graphics. Beyond that, consistency needs to be a priority. For example, on the desktop I might have a few PDF files, a couple of Docs, and a few videos. Each file-type has a different icon size. The PDFs have a small preview, the mp3s have an icon associated with music, etc. A consistency in icon size would go a long way. | Doug | . | Install or upgrate a rpm or deb software with GUI,just clicks to resolve the dependences.New things like globalmenu and dock is very great.I hope Evolution may be as simple as Mail in Mac OS X With more beautiful template.Also openoffice.org should be more beautiful than iWork, not like the rubbish Microsoft Office. | Anonymous | . | Firstly, focus on rock solid stability. That may involve deprecating some older libraries and starting a new side project for a "compatibility library" to dump the cruft to. For Gnome as a whole, this needs to be done in a way so that ALL distributions benefit without inconsistent (or consistent) "breakages" between distros. End users don't care about the technical background/reason, they want things to work and work properly. A flaky distro using Gnome as the default interface does injustice to the distro reputation itself, Linux as a whole and the entire Gnome project (since that is what they can see and can't always seperate the difference between UI, OS and distro). Perhaps a method of ensuring stability is some sort of unified compatibility testing suite/script which would cover basic/core Gnome functionality and beyond (taking "desktop" use into consideration). This could save time with dealing with bug reports for both Gnome and the distros out there as problems would not be pushed out to the masses, be it final or even beta stage. Whatever technical choices (and design) that are made should be both good for the developers and good for the user. Good technical choices make it easier for developers to understand, work with and maintain. The user should be unaware and not have to understand anything remotely technical or how elegantly designed (code/infrastructure) Gnome is.
Secondly, focus on performance improvements and memory usage. If it involves a complete re-write of something, so be it (ie. Gnome Terminal). It's a good thing netbooks entered the market to remind us what it's like to work with limited resources, as well as a collapsed economy (sort of). Even as specs improve, we should still focus on speed and efficiency and not take it for granted. Maybe a small project to start with is to reduce resource usage of the gnome-applets, be it the applets themselves and/or infrastructure.
A completely new interface/overhaul may be in order, however there should be a fallback option to the "familiar" current Gnome as we know it, be it a hotkey or clicking on an applet icon. That is especially the case for people in situations where a major change in interface can't happen or some unknown/unexpected compatibility issue may arise. Don't make compositing a mandatory requirement. Make any eye-candy/animations lightweight and as efficient as possible. Also take into consider the unfortunate future that monitors on desktops and note/net/books may be lower resolution and wide screen. Perhaps a scalable widget theme is best to accommodate the possibilities/preferences of the individual. We have low resolution small and large screens... as well as high[ish] resolution small screens. It is time for a new spec for adjustable "white space" so we don't continue to create a clutter of the multiple theme variants. Any power hungry eye-candy/animations should be broken out as an extension with a common library to access other means of acceleration if available (GPU). If a notebook user has any eye-candy enabled, provide some ability to have different eye-candy profiles based on environmental factors (AC power? 90% battery remaining? 50% or 30% remaining?). Based on usage history, gnome-power-manager may be able to calculate how much [extra] battery life eye-candy is consuming, which the user should also know about.
A new interface needs to be flexible enough to accommodate usage patterns of students, office and "power-user" use. Any major/drastic changes need a lot of time, consideration and [public] trials before. The pros and cons of all new ideas should be evaluated.
How about delaying Gnome 3.0 more, experiment with the 2.2{4,6} already in place, focus mostly on fixing critical bugs and work on Gnome 3.0 in parallel. A good finished product is well worth the wait. A broken/half baked/rushed product will do no good to Gnome and the entire open source community as a whole. Although I may crave the latest, I should be happy that what I'm using now and "stuck" with is reliable and working.
I've been using Gnome since 1.x. I hope you guys can work towards the speeds I remember back in the day, consider how we've stepped up to such "modern" hardware nowadays (and :stepped back" with the introduction of netbooks). Gnome used to be much more slender in the past in terms of CPU and memory usage. It seems as [modern] hardware has barely made up for inefficiencies. | Allan | . | Even more accessibility, web services integration, universal searches(which includes remote places), desktop effects, improved window and "desktop" management (which includes user tasks, user notes...) | Anonymous | . | I find it very hard to share things in the current version of gnome. I like to share stuff like songs and photos with my friends, and currently the only way to do that is with email. I would like to see some sort of application that I can use to send off files to my friends. Also, I would like it to be easier to show my screen to others much like ichat and msn lets others share their screen views or gives control of the screen to others. | Mark Niebur | . | I'll leave this up to the professionals to answer. I'm happy if you guys just keep doing what you're doing. Gnome is my Desktop of choice! | Anonymous | . | In two ways: getting a little lightweight would definitely help a lot. For example Nautilus is a very bloated file manager, PCManFM and even Thunar do a great while being more lightweight than Nautilus. The second thing is the look. KDE is a good example of a great DM that also looks good. They took a very risky shot but it turned out to be one of the best decisions they had. Changes always take time to be accepted the way they are intented to and now people are seeing the reason behind the change. | Kadir Yücel | . | I've looked at GNOME Shell and Zeitgeist and they look very interesting. | Anonymous | . | By filling in the gaps between different applications. The desktop paradigm is old. We need to move to an actions-based paradigm. Normal people think about what they want to do, not how they are going to get a machine to do it. We need to make it easier to do our everyday tasks by integrating applications so tightly that they nearly blend into one. | Anonymous | . | Have a netbook-launcher-like 'home-screen' instead of a 'desktop'. | Chris | . | More editable | Jay | . | Improved support for transparency in the taskbars (some elements look ugly when the taskbar background is transparent)
| Martin | . | Autohiding of icons in the notification area to save some space; Less waste of screen space (smaller buttons, less empty areas etc); Better looking default theme; Integration of Widgets (instead of using external programs like screenlets); Using Qt instead of GTK (just kidding^^) | Anonymous | . | Make it thinner, lighter (on resources) and faster (get rid of clutter and cruft), focus on whats important, make it more modular (break dependencies, I don't want Evolution at all and not OpenOffice on all my computers etc. I really don't want a dependency to MONO!). | Robert Palmqvist | . | Integrate gnome-do(hopefully by then it will have a notification systray) get rid of the panels and use compiz like functionality to manage windows- the scale plugin is amazing. | Eric Usher |
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because win explorer is much easier to use and user friend | googi | . | Greater theme and background choices. | Reg Stockley | . | Change the looks to a new and fresh.. look. Gnome seems to look the same for years now. | Bob | . | Simpler operating on switch between the opened windows | iSean | . | Gnome should contain more accessibility features. Integration with orca and other screen readers should be improved. Efforts should be made to make orca read local languages. | James | . | Native support for NTLM authentication proxy (ISA server) | Erhan Yukselci | . | desplay after parpred
detail
chinese im
gdm can use some tool like im and onboard
the "onboard" | yh | . | More consistency between applications, in terms of menus, look-and-feel.
Better localisability.
Nicer fonts.
Do not go down the KDE route, keep it simple and elegant. I find KDE4 unusable and ugly. | Shane Wims | . | I know how it should not be improved ! Not KDE STYLE 4.
DON'T DROP ON US MAJOR CHANGES. Drip them in carefulley, and let us decide how we want to use them.
Personally, I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, so i don't like using the menus. I launch prorgrams with ALT+f2 most of the time. Some people like gnome-do for that. But I find the menus organized well and nicely for new users I introduce to linux. Also, I dislike searching for items, i.e SUSE style or KDE4. I find it counter intuitive that I have to search for program. Instead a well structured menu like gnome's is guiding me or new users. So although it takes lot's of screen property GNOME aplications-places-system menu is very good in my opinion. And I would like to see it staying.
In terms of using more space, some people in UBUNTU are working on the Mac style changing upper bar. This is indeed valuable, and would be nice to have it as an option for upcoming gnome versions. | Oz Nahum | . | learn win7's explorer, multi-selection. right click function. | pink | . | * Leave the concept of Rectangle.
Windows should be SHAPED, rounded, what ever but not rectangular.
* A modern computer have a powerfull graphic card. Why not use it.
Compiz is often too much. Be moderate and make Metacity window manager do 1/2 of the tricks of Compiz and people will love it.
* Desktop is a scene:
Advanced theme will give a nice 3D desktop with multiple portholes to other devices and spaces.
Simple theme will just give a flat, old type Metacity desktop.
| Moma | . | Speed and memory usage optimizations. Better default audio player (Rhythmbox is uncomfortable). More customization options. | Rafał | . | audio program like amarok or maybe better. | gerry | . | More config options would be nice and helpful
sometimes Gnome looks pure if the user cant configure the behavior of the programs
| Wolf-Rüdiger Jürgens | . | N/A | Anonymous | . | - Integration of a clipboard
- Ditch Mono
- Improve devices sync | Nightfall | . | Mostly, performance and memory consumption. AutoHide feature of the panels is buggy. | Alex | . | Better notifications. | Eric Yeoh | . | Small stuff like;
resize applications is hard since the area to pick is so (insane) small, make it more easy to install and use font, better app to tray control, better clipboard manager(I use trigger), let me change the name of harddrives, let me hide shares(samba, sshfs) to show up as icons on the desktop. | Steffen | . | more stable | Walter Wang |
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| | | . | Just keep going you guys are doing a great job.
Dont do massive jumps like kde4 did, that is just too painful for people trying to get work done.
If you do make a big jump, make sure you better define (than kde 4 did ) the release of 3.0 as Alpha or testing version of gnome and keep supporting the gnome2 during the transition.
| clive w | . | faster, | Anonymous | . | - try to integrate/affiliate gnome-do into mainline?
- give more support for advanced customizer / property setup / tweaker tools
so these tools are for advanced users I know but e.g. included nautilus scripts could be added easily and would give users a definite plus if they don't need to install them just check in a UI that they want to use them... | Anonymous | . | * Gnome 2.x is already good. :)
* Make vertical window list working !
* The Gnome-Do is really cool, please continue and evolve this idea.
* Some enhancement to nautilus - like cannot drag and drop files to current folder in list view. Also more gracious error handling and recovery would be good.
* Nautilus - when file copying is canceled or broken in middle. there is only half the file copies - this is really annoying, mostly when many files are being copied, and must be always checked by user if there is half of file when he tries to copy again. I believe that many inexperienced user lost many files this way | Michal Minich | . | performance improvement, webkt integrated | joseph | . | Better connect to server capability | Justin | . | An easy theme selector. With connections to gnome-look.org | Anonymous | . | Honestly? Just keep it simple, tidy and efficient. The graphics are great and sober. Everything works well.
Please, please stay out of all of that awful and unproductive eye-candy mess that KDE got itself into.
The only thing that annoys me is the fact that, sometimes, freshly-installed programs do not show up in the applications menu. And it's somewhat time-consuming setting up a link by ourselves.
Lastly, I've notice that I tend to insert some of my favorite nautilus scripts into the right-click menu. Although it's quite easy to do, some more options to start with would be nice.
Keep it up and thanks for providing the community with such a wonderful piece of software… for free!! You guys rock!
| Acionyx | . | So from my point of view there are some very good ideas for gnome 3.0 like Zeitgeist. I know A LOT of people who always call me, just to ask where they put their files because they can't remember. So Zeitgeist wouldnt only need to be able to look for that chronologically, but also like tagging or group searches or stuff like that.
For gnome shell, I must say I tried it out and dislike it. The problem with it is somehow that if you just "play" with your computer then everything is fine. But it gets so much into your way if you need real workflow.
Areas to improves are for my point of view clearly Nautilus, Metacity, theming (gnome works good, but looks like 20 years old) | Anonymous | . | Stop doing major changes. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Don't make it another KDE4! | Planète Béranger | . | be faster, pls | nolava | . | Gadgets in Desktop,
Improved accessibility.
Great themes built in.
More softwares.. | Aneesh | . | Definitely yes | Krishnaprasad M.G. | . | Speed and stability over features.
Wide screens have taken over, and top-to-bottom space is at a premium. Move info/panels to the side.
Bring back short-cut key remapping for menus (make it easy to enable).
Context search is overrated (but not totally useless). Find-utils/Locate is awesome. Integrate THAT into nautilus.
Speaking of Nautilus: it is slow. it is not easy to customize (adding Send-To options?). it still crashes. (I envy KIO Slaves in KDE3, but that's the only thing I envy in KDE.)
Tweaking app settings in GConf is still not too user friendly. It should be as friendly as an apps "preferences".
Gnome menus... are not too bad now. I just rarely use them. I tend to know programs by their name (ex: I look for 'pidgin', not 'chat'. I use three different 'web browser' programs. ), and Alt-F2 type-it-in, or create a short-cut on a side-panel. (copying to/from menus/panels is very cool.)
Wine integration into Gnome menus doesn't seem to work too well (which is probably a wine issue).
3D-desktops are cute, but I don't need it (and still buggy enough that they stay turned off.)
If Gnome goes the plug-in route for features, a testing framework for plug-ins would be heavenly (if the plug-in developers would actually use it,... which means the testing framework would have to be KISS and damn-fool-proof.)
(not really a desktop issue, but maybe gnome-vfs) Still using /home over NFS. | Anonymous | . | Keep it as "lightweight" as possible... Avoid bloat... Make it so it still works ok with older hardware... Don't try to change it too much (like KDE4)... Keep it "no nonsense", with a very "business like" defaults... | Anonymous | . | Allow me to make windows open in the CENTRE of the screen rather than top left.
Currently I have to use Compiz to achieve this. | Anonymous | . | do the best! | wind76620 | . | Intergrated IM, fully intergrated search (for files/programs/menu items/contacts), allow nautilus to open archives as if they were folders removing the need for a seperate program. | Anonymous | . | I can think of a few things:
- Make shortcuts work when menu's are open
- Consistent copy-pasting as described by Raskin in The Humane Interface
- Integrate Gnome-do
- Default to one panel (I'd prefer a top panel)
- Make organizer separate from evolution and light-weight or add a light-weight alternative to evolution
- Clean up the main menu, especially the System tab. Put logical groups like keyboard and mouse stuff together as it is done on a Mac.
- Add an optimize button to the window border buttons a la Mac.
- Fix the sometimes quirky behavior (i.e. sudden moving) of panel applets
- Make separate wallpapers possible on multi-head configurations.
- Make it possible to unmount drives from the panel menu instead of having to open nautilus
- Allow file management in the save and open dialogs. It looks like nautilus so it should behave as such. Requiring a user to open nautilus separately is not helpful
- Make programs more integrated but their UI's more independent, for example, when I open a menu in open office and then switch to another app, the menu closes. This makes no sense since I did not request that to happen.
- Make it possible to alt-tab when dragging
- The new volume control app is awesome, but we should add the volume of the independent programs under the main volume so it's more at hand | Arian | . | The zeitgeist and gnome shell thing may be too much of a change in the user interface. If people complained about folder view in KDE4, what are they going to say when they see much more radical changes to the UI in Gnome 3.0? I'd like Gnome to be prettier, with more transparencies and effects. One missing feature is a dialog box that tells the user which file has been more recently modified when overwriting files with the same name in the same folder. Even Windows is better at that. | Victor |
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| | | . | easyer configuration of the more hidden options | lxuser | . | better drag n drop, apps loading faster. | Indy Mak | . | Works fine the way it is... | Anonymous | . | Easier to find files
Easier to theme and customize
| Anonymous | . | I would like to see:
* non-gnome applications to have a more gnome-like look, or perhaps the ability to change the theme for kde apps
* custom keyboard shortcuts
* ability to define misbehaving multimedia keys
* redesign of the menu, include a search function
* mouse gestures in nautilus | Rick | . | It should be slim, well integrated with Pulseaudio, Packagekit, DeviceKit, free (without Mono), adaptable to different environment (from desktop to netbook), and improve productivity.
It would also be nice to put some plugins in gedit, in order to make it a good and light editor for c/c++/python :) | Anonymous | . | better (less CPU usage - less eye candy if needed) wallpaper applications (aka widgets)
widgets to monitor remote servers | zalun | . | - Improve user friendlyness of default applications without making it look like an OS for dumb people. Gnome should provide a good experience for new and advanced users.
- Redesign the System menu, many apps can be merged and many other can be redesigned to make them more intuitive.
- Make it look better and snappier.
- Remove Mono dependencies by default. Mono it's not necessary (Java has been there for years), and a desktop manager shouldn't be written in a bytecode language. Therefore, I don't think it's safe for Gnome to build anything on Microsoft technology. | Anonymous | . | Better support for placing panels on the left or right. Window List looks crap on a left side panel.
Integrated widget support (like plasma) | Allan | . | maybe,now,i don't know what is better,but wishes Gnome more better tomorrow | tangfu | . | Configuration of mouse buttons actions.
In KDE I like it how you can copy then "paste to" and navigate folders thorugh the menu deployed. | José Luis | . | Less buttons and less options for mouse. | shuizhongke | . | 1) Good suppoirts for gtk1.2 , cause a lot of commercial software are based on gtk1.2 .
2)Keep Gnome simple,fast and steady is very important. | codepin gu | . | allow customization of buttons (add/remove/reorder).
organized main menu by default and make the look of distros standardized.
re update old apps that still used and make them pluggable. | yami | . | Functionally and conceptually it is really good, visually it could be more like KDE4, (glossy, aero). | Anonymous | . | Performance Improvements. More "Gnome" applications. A video/audio/photo editing suite. Better integration with Firefox. A Webkit based browser. | Anonymous | . | I love the idea of having an integrated search for menuitems in each program. That would be really amazing (if accessing it with a keybinding was available of course; it should also be always-visible, no popups). A better run dialog is also much needed. I find the current menu structure amazing and nothing should be changed. Also the ability to (batch) tag the files and then browse them based on their metadata (that is tags, creation date etc.) would be fantastic (zeitgeist maybe?). | Giorgos Retsinas | . | Improved window navigation. If you have multiple windows open in a workspace (multiple == 6-15 or more on a given workspace), Alt+Tab is _slow_ and annoying.
Throw in tab-oriented applications like Gedit, Epiphany, Firefox, MonoDevelop, etc., and _finding_ the document you want is often difficult.
What I want is _global_ Find By Name functionality -- hit a shortcut key, start typing some text, and somehow get a list of all windows AND tabs which match the search string.
Think of it as an MonoDevelop's Search -> Go To File functionality on steroids.
(Or think of it as a version of deskbar-applet's Window Switcher tool that (1) works -- often deskbar-applet won't find a window that I know is there, and (2) also finds tabs, not just title bar text.)
Unfortunately the "look at tab text" functionality will likely require some degree of app integration, but it would be _really_ handy.
(The alternative of "don't have that many windows open" is a non-starter. Development requires lots of tabs and windows.) | Jonathan Pryor | . | better quality in applications. the gnome application are very good, but there is room for improvement. The UI is already awesome. | makkay | . | Nautilus (and other program like Document Viewer -> Evince) should running separate processes(maybe parent chidl forked processes). I Window(of Nautilus, Evince and ohters) became to busy and is closed forecedly all open Windows/Documents are closed and can be reopen only manually doubleclicking old opened foldes/documents. If a bug in Evince crash a window all Evince windows are colsed(there is only one evince process for all open documents). | Anonymous |
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| | | . | light weight, embedded system support, clean and simple interface, fast speed, beatiful window manager . | robin | . | 1 more stable
2 don't look too like apple
3 more faster form gdm to desktop
4 easy to programing
5 no java,no C#,less python become part of gnome project
| wkt | . | 整整菜单吧，我感觉好像很少用得着这玩意，要不然，可以考虑一下把菜单变成面板上窗口的右键菜单？不知道别人怎样，反正我是很少点菜单，它即不好看，还占地方 | zouyuncheng | . | Although its likely personal preference : Improve how applets behave in vertical bars.
Taskbar is still atrocious.
Menubar, system tray and clock rotate as expected. | Nathan Howard | . | I like the minimalist gui. But it's getting dusty - outdated visually. I think there needs to be room to integrate innovative "get it done" smarter and slicker processes. I would also like more control of the visual configurations as in KDE. By all meas, get a font installer! Really need to have ability to use different backgrounds for workspaces. | Anonymous | . | I beg you for support for mouse scrolling (change lines scrolled per movement).
Force ALL applications to use my theme. I have vision problems that require me to use a very specific theme. Apps like Evolution and Planner and QCad cause trouble in bright viewing. I would especially love to be able to darken the background in Planner. I understand this may not be doable, but if you could make it so the backgrounds can be changed to darker colors I'd kiss you on the face. | joe | . | Meta search
All the GUI configuration applications should display the command or script which they used if asked to by the user - much like SMIT in AIX
Memory consumption should be reduced, or at least not grow more than it is now
An ability to make the task bars transparent and draw shades behind the icons so that they would appear floating (a nice touch would be if they were also pressed to the background when clicked)
Nautilus should remember the last recently used paths
Sorry couldn't think of a feature that would have a "wow" effect :) | balak (not the real name...) | . | I think a little more functionality won't hurt. It can be hidden behind "Advanced" button, or maybe something similar to Windows new control panel look (I know gnome is not aiming to look like windows, but why shouldn't we use the good ideas). The second option is not my favorite, but many people will appreciate the simplicity behind it.
Then comes the visual look. There are many themes and gtk engines and stuff, but still I think a better overall look can be achieved beating the looks of WIndows 7 for example.
I don't know if it's just me, but I kind a feel that the menus could be more responsive. there could be some more performance optimizations mainly to the file operations. I like the integration of gnome and nautilus, but most of the other file browsers are faster than nautilus.
Next thing could be some more modularity end extensibility, like for example a better support for plugins in nautilus could be nice. I am sure many of you have used Total Commander with its many plugins, the split windows and the ability to open almost anything wit hthe right plugins. I kind a would like to see something similar in gnome. You could also take Firefox plugins for example. Although Total Commandeer is a better example here, because its plugins no matter how many they are don't take more memory, or make it slower.
From the design part would be good to have the ability to use some unordinary forms like elipses, rings etc.. This square look is getting kind a boring. Of course a designer here could say how this should look without being too cluttered and disfunctional, but definitely something could be done.
Lastly I should say that the maturity of the software should be improved. There should be as less inconsistency and crashes as possible.
I hope I wasn't too critical. I really like what you are doing with Gnome. Keep up the good work. | Borislav | . | i don't like being surprised when something happens or have to guess how something is done.
So removing all the possibly ugly but ultimately discoverable config options and doesn't simplify my work load it just makes it more confusing.
| Gareth | . | Make it better looking, better performing, lesser buggy. | Henrik S | . | Allow me to launch a task (a bunch of apps/documents) at once in a given context...ideally for me, I could run a given Activity and get something like:
- gnome-terminal open, four tabs running on PROJECT_ROOT, running my autotests, my webserver, my console, and vim
- firefox open to localhost/project_name
- nautilus open on Client_Files/client_name
etc. I'd love to set that up once and save it off. | Josh Adams | . | 1) Mac OS like menus, I find it very usable, at least as an option
2) Well-integrated Gnome DO, I usually use it to start program quickly and to perform some common actions
3) Performance improvements | Kirill | . | More control over power management/CPU speed. I'm a KDE refugee. Please don't destroy everything as they have done:-) | Shawn Rogers | . | speed
clear navigation
launch program | Anonymous | . | I am happy with it as it is. | Ariszló | . | I have to mention that I'm actually using KDE apps in GNOME desktop - that means I'm using Kopete, K3b, Kmail/Kontact, Dolphin, Amarok,etc. That means that IMHO Gnome has definitely a better wm/desktop experience while KDE provides way better applications for every day use. | matei traistaru | . | Samba integration--network and device auto-discovery
iPhone sync (music, video, contacts, bookmarks, calendars) | Matthew Elliott | . | Less resource heavy, quicker start time. | Anonymous | . | Show off on my desktop, and do it in the most unobtrusive way possible: it needn't be with wobbly windows and flashy cubes, just a nice, well structured, and well worded desktop and I'll be happy. Help me find what I need.
The general feel of window contents needs to be slicker, I've seen, but not used, the animations in OSX, wherein, I think, a box with semi-important info needing a response slides from the window decoration -- it's nicer than a dialog or notification.
Gnome-do like language functionality for just typing want you want would be excellent inside applications -- why go rooting for something when you can just ask and have it given.
Our desktop's look is customizable, so use the variety that the community provides: go with some solid, pleasant artwork but also provide the choice of putting my own touches easily. I don't want to supply a hex code or dive into complex colour-picker: I want to choose "green" or "red" not "now define variations hereof".
Have similar things work in the same way, why does my music player pause it this way and my video player in another; more functional animations, morphing alert-box like dialogs which consolidate pop-up window after pop-up window (tried to install a codec recently?) into a single instance; better-looking elements in GTK, a better consistent use of typeface boldness and italics in dialogs; and less dialogs. In short, a simplified consistent pleasant interface supplemented with animations would go along way. Stricter interface guidelines, I say.
More emphasis on workspaces -- needs to be prominently featured to encourage people to use them.
Better feedback everywhere; more integration everywhere.
Help me to use my desktop, help me find out how to make my work easier, show me to resolve my problems; error, how dare it. | Max Cairns | . |
- make all mono libraries and applications optional, but include wine and samba in
default Gnome installations.
- allow user customizations should revolutionary changes be made that the user is not pleased with (allow the user the flexibiltiy to change back if desired.)
- include VLC as default media player. | Anonymous |
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| | | . | Please just dont follow KDE and their eye candy wannabe environment | Guillaume Belfiore | . | -Single bar interface
-Integrate search for files in right click menu
-Integrated search to have options such as type, size, date, hidden files etc
-"Run command" and "Search" options in main menu by default
-Less "flat" interface
-Transparency
-Compositing without compiz
-More customizable desktop | Elias K | . | To be honest not sure. | mike henson | . | * No big UI break
* Better Nautilus, faster
* eog is too primitive
* Image rotation in Nautilus
* Tags support in Nautilus
* Only one panel | Anonymous | . | By making Shell awesome. Make it fast. Make it usable. Make it customizable. Tried the version in SVN a few weeks back and it felt rigid and clunky, but I'm sure things will improve. :) | Jacob Peddicord | . | Configurable focus (should allow certain programs, which are configurable, to steal focus).
Configurable window properties (customize window properties like position, workspace, etc. based on their names, classes, etc.). | Anonymous | . | Better Theme by default and better GDM | Anonymous | . | Better Desktop with easier theming :) More usable and yet better looking.. Not making it resource hungry :P
Better applications UI, and better file manager and improve everything :D
| Shashwat | . | I suggest GNOME developers giving us a GUI with unified appearance like KDE, and more convenience operation like Windows. | Jie | . | I hope it can support my symbian phone. | Anonymous | . | Centralized configuration, setting options at top panel.
More convenient file manager.
Maybe, a faster response speed | loza | . | Gnome is superb and I don't even know what could be improved :) | Taras | . | Make development tools more intuitive
A Device Manager like application
More bling :) | Anonymous | . | - possibility to open programs automatically at logon on a specific workspace (firefox maximised on WS1 email on WS2, etc)
- allow more bookmarks under Places, NOT a submenu
| friso | . | Better underneath structure, good APIs and smarter daemons, and easy to understand calling conventions. Metacity really needs some update and/or better, advanced config utility.
As an end user everything is where it should be. | Nenad | . | Better handling of accidential clicking and dragging, especially in the panels. (e.g. accidentially moving the top panel to another edge, certain applets (like the clock) that stay in the foreground when clicked and don't close when activating another window) These things should be easier to undo.
A clipboard that doesn't automatically lose its contents when the source window closes. (i.e. something like Glipper, but more "native")
Always keep basic UI controls fast even when the system is low on memory and swapping a lot, so that e.g. the user quickly can close misbehaving programs. | Stian Ellingsen | . | 1. More polished icons, like what OpenOffice project did moving from v2 to v3.
2. Desktop widgets ala Windows7.
3. Something like MacOS' stacks. | Alexander | . | Simple: More powerful and revolutionary workflows & better eye-candy. :) | Daerd | . | More configurability | Anonymous | . | Make it more modular so that I can choose other alternatives to some applications without fetching so many dependencies. I also would like to see gnome-do as default in a gnome instalation and better configuration. A few applications could be improved: network configuration, screen resolution configuration (it's way too basic).
I'm happy with the gnome top panel, but maybe the panel applets could be improved (aka more flexibility to make completely different applets) | Carlos |
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| | | . | integrate a clipboard manager to fix the copy/paste issue (really annoying)
integrate a compiz like window manager, similar to Kwin for KDE
new default theme..
double-panel + easy NFS mounting for the file manager
something similar to quicklook in mac would be great (something that can open any file for quick preview in read-only)
better use of hotkey to launch programs
| Anonymous | . | Don't over simplify. Over simplification leads to people not learning how to accomplish more complicated tasks that really require learning. Sometimes people have to take the time to learn how to really do something. Over simplification leads to a "windows" type crowd that accomplishes nothing and sits cursing at their PC or not using it's full potential.
Also please keep dependencies for add on programming packages like Mono, Java etc., clean, so people can choose what to remove and keep alternative program coding active and vibrant. | | . | Don't over simplify. Over simplification leads to people not learning how to accomplish more complicated tasks that really require learning. Sometimes people have to take the time to learn how to really do something. Over simplification leads to a "windows" type crowd that accomplishes nothing and sits cursing at their PC or not using it's full potential.
Also please keep dependencies for add on programming packages like Mono, Java etc., clean, so people can choose what to remove and keep alternative program coding active and vibrant. | | . | Don't over simplify. Over simplification leads to people not learning how to accomplish more complicated tasks that really require learning. Sometimes people have to take the time to learn how to really do something. Over simplification leads to a "windows" type crowd that accomplishes nothing and sits cursing at their PC or not using it's full potential.
Also please keep dependencies for add on programming packages like Mono, Java etc., clean, so people can choose what to remove and keep alternative program coding active and vibrant. | | . | Stability | Olcay | . | an application software supports video chat with windows users | Anonymous | . | Three areas I'd like to see enhancements/improvements...
(1) Windows "familiarity" mode - Make it easier for non-technical users who are used to Windows (like my wife) to find things. For example, give them the ability to easily create a "C_Drive" directory, etc. The way things are now, my wife has a terrible time finding things on a home Linux PC, and it's mostly because she isn't used to the Linux file system structure. I don't think we should have Drive letters like in Windows, but if we create a directory with a name like "H_drive" and make it intuitive and easy to create these references/links that would go a long way to driving acceptance.
(2) Add "predictive" and "context-sensitive" application and menu items. So based on my application selection history, Gnome should remember what apps I not only use recently, but also what files/folders/applications when I'm doing activity XYZ. For example, if I always open application (browser) or a certain file while I have my email client open, those apps/files should be "suggested" to me.
(3) Desktop widgets - give me the ability to have small and web services based widgets on my desktop... everything from a favorite RSS feed to a clock to a web page
| Kevin Chin | . | Tighter integration of core gnome programs.
Rework primary user interface to seamlessly link with various sources - local files, web, etc. | Max Volume | . | Universal control panel (with search), Integrated widgets, better application synergy | Ryan Swart | . | Good Lite Note taking widget.
better evolution stability ( specially with huge no. of mails ).
KDE 4 like start menu ? i'm not sure if this is good.
flexibility and better customisation & themes support .
Increase Desktop performance ( specially gnome start up - takes more than 90 second to get the desktop on 4 GB RAM + 2 GB 64Bit AMD X2 Dual Core processor and ATI Radeon 3200 proprietary driver).
a good tool that can clean bloated home directory and gnome settings ( maybe some thing like safe-mode ).
| Anonymous | . | Nautilus needs toolbar editing. Everything needs to be more professionally designed, and made simpler to understand; while having settings for all features for all programs. | Brad Jensen | . | I don't know | David Li | . | audo/video editors | nicola | . | 1 Much faster than 2.x series.
1 New IM that support audio and video chat.
2 Much more improvements to support PDA, smart phone and tablet.
4 Evince should support annotation. | Anonymous | . | whatever you do don't have windows that I don't open appear in my windows list automatically (like ubuntu has for update notification in jaunty). Windows popping up (or under) may have good uses but it wrecks my work flow (I like to have complete control over my workspace. After all it's my workspace and my computer). It would also be great if nautilus could get undo functionality. I think the icons in the panels could be prevented from jumbling up when I change resolution and change back. Other than that I think that gnome is best DE for its' ease of use and letting me get to work without hassle. Sorry for the complaints, keep up the good work, i know you'll do great. | Brian Olsen | . | Improve workflow by helping (even propose with directory names whosen from dates) places to store files and methods to retreive those files (Zeitgeist is a must have IMHO). Maybe adding a tag to specify which program created a file would help as well.
Having a kind of special place to store temporary files would be welcome (for example I need to include a scanned file in a document, then the scanned file is only a tmp file in that workflow). Even add a "Teporary files" entry in the file selector? | Vivien | . | I use a WM to let me alt-tab between terminals and a web browser, and use an IM program effectively (system tray, alert on new messages, chat windows that exist across workspaces so on). So given this usage pattern, I just want it to remain simple and usable.
One feature I would like is to have a all windows in a workspace tugged out somewhere and then brought back when needed.
One more thing would be to have light-weight version of gnome-terminal, which should essentially be a rxvt-unicode with full support for indic scripts. (Light weight meaning, no tabs/menus required just the term with proper indic script input (scim) and output (pango) | Koushik Narayanan | . | Avoid any dependency on mono.
Clear up the mess with GVFS - "everything is a file" is clearly broken when you can see files in nautilus but not open them.
Work with distributions to help them avoid breaking or not using GNOME components (e.g. the clipboard history applet which crashes on startup in Ubuntu)
Keep up the good work!
| Anonymous | . | Improved desktop search capabilities, like searching for file, and as context search must suggest me apps with wich i can open this file, web sites from which i downloaded this file et. etc.. Look and feel should be more costumizable, some of applications more lightweight, faster startup time for core programs, lke nautilus and gedit. | Roman | . | Get rid of Mono dependency. It's a Microsoft patent trap and redundant technology anyway.
Use GNote instead of Tomboy.
You could provide something like Humanized Enso/Mozilla Labs Ubiquity, either as modified Deskbar or new app. That means functionality mashups of local programs and less clicking around.
Conduit: make Evolution sync with OpenMoko. Make Evolution sync across computers in local network, ie. without third-party server/service. Make Epiphany history/bookmarks sync across computers.
Evolution printing:
-Allow for choosing size/fonts of columns when printing tasks. so you can print more/less on one page
-Allow for printing calendar for specific time-frame(from-to), not just current view
-Make printing tasks in daily calendar optional
-Allow for 2page-a-week print layout for calendar.
Epiphany: use Gnome keyring for storing passwords. Add Tor (The onion routing)
Tracker: extend search to Evolution/Thunderbird/mailbox/maildir e-mails, Firefox/Epiphany bookmarks/history, Liferea newsfeeds, Rhythmbox music/podcasts, Evolution contacts, tasks and memos.
Make a central database/xml file for OpenSearch engines and make it easily acessible for programs that might want to use it, like Epiphany searchbar like one in Firefox, Deskbar search and Gnome-do. | Anonymous |
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| | | . | faster and stronger | woniu | . | Looking at the plans to use Gnome Shell and Zeitgeist, the ideas look interesting already.
Currently, I launch the four programs I use most from an icon on the taskbar in one click. It would be a pity to lose this.
I find the Gnome 2 applications menu gets so full that it is hard to locate applications quickly and having no ability to place launchers for frequently used applications which don't quite warrant a place on my toolbar near the top of the applications menu is a bind.
I use only a single panel placed at the top in Gnome 2.0, sized at 24 pixels. Having a wide screen laptop, I could lose working space from the sides but hate losing working space from the height.
I would hope that Gnome 3 will be as resource light as possible for the features. My Core 2 T7400 often seems unresponsive under Gnome 2.
Gtk 2 looks old and clunky in comparison to QT4 and toolkits on other platforms, so the use of clutter or other technologies to spruce up the look and hopefully the rendering speeds seems like a good plan. | Anonymous | . | It can have more options, like ones in gconf, but in GUI (panels, nautilus...)
Many users are using compiz-fusion. Have that in mind. Make it easy for compiz to integrate with Gnome.
You are doing a great job! :) | Janos Guljas | . | It should preserve it's layout,but improve the performance,and resolve the exisiting bugs,Gnome in his current state is perfect,but a little tweak on it's look and on handling icons in menus when their look is changed(ex. after you change the look of an icon,and you uninstall that program the icon remains in the menu),as for the look,some themes like murrine,and icons like Elementary should be used.Rhythmbox could use some improvements to,like not starting with my entire collection on start up,and an equalizer;it would be perfect if Gnome could run on older machines! | Marius Timu | . | Faster opening of programs | Bill Gunn | . | More theming capabilities (the CSS idea is an interesting one); Full RGBA Support; Less dependency on Mono; A Bookmarks/Locations manager (similar to Firefox Bookmark Manager?); Ability to import/export Gconf values/settings for transferring or sharing; Integrate Gconf Editor with Control Centre?; And finally, please, please, please give the Sawfish guys a hand to further integrate it into the new Desktop :) | Jason D. Moss | . | Some of items(such as the menu and button) is a little big, so the inteface of some softwares seems to be not clear enough. I holp the items of gnome can be a littile smart, then more items can be showed in one screen, and then the program can make full use of my screen. thanks ^_^ | ZhangMingWei | . | Management of audio is confusing. I use an external usb sound card and would deeply love to switch to GNU Linux full time, but cannot figure out how to do music production in it. | Anonymous | . | performance, more GTK/gnome applications | Anonymous | . | - Seamless integration with web services
- Better use of graphics
- ELIMINATION of MONO dependence for applications
| Manuel Suárez Benedicto | . | Replace the gnome menu with gnome-do
Create an inference based UI | Anonymous | . | * Independant workspace (at least different wallpaper) and being able to choose applications and files associate to each one (something like devilspie)).
* Possibility to choose the order of program launch at startup (in sessions)
* More themes (and application to create and edit, especially for icons themes)
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Thanks for all the work, gnome 2.x is already very good. | Anonymous | . | auto configure X server,dual monitor,projector。No auto search all my system to pattern the iinput command on running dialog。 | smzhou | . | Automate things, remove the need for popup dialogs and seperate search windows (i.e. do what they do in Firefox). | Hans Rödtang | . | better file explorer, more options to customize. better usability for quick launch (alt+f2) and more options for right mouse button (to launch programs on desktop) . better notification system. | Anonymous |
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