Interesting New Gnome 3 Design Mockups (Videos)

The natural workflow for most people involves a certain amount of multitasking. Gnome 3 devs are trying to stamp this out and impose their singularly obsessive disorder on their vision of the perfect desktop. The information your eye used to gather from the panels, like open applications, activities on other desktops, multiple notifications from other systems and tasks has been reduced.

But the information is needed, so...

Gnome 3 shell gives you the mega notification.

And if you want to click it so it will close, it will now avoid your mouse.

Why not just give us a couple of panels and display this stuff in a less disruptive way?



You know like gnome 2 did?

Because that would be wrong, number6x. Why? Um because!

Are you a UI expert? No. Then your opinion isn't important. The Gnome developers are UI experts, so you need to change your workflow to fit their vision, because their vision is supreme. Remember, they're experts. How do we know that? Because they say so! How dare you question the Gnome developers!

Just think its funny that they worked so hard to get rid of things, and are now putting them back.

I'm not against change, but I don't know if popups that avoid my mouse are really an improvement in not distracting me.

I might have just been 'set in my ways', but I thought the old, fairly static notification systems that used specified panel space were less distracting. I could learn to keep a certain part if my attention of the notification area, the clock, the weather app. It didn't have to intrude on my deskspace.

But 48 x 48 notification windows?

New things can be good, but new when the old isn't broken is just wasteful.

Why can't they make into a game of whack the notification?

Isn't that called MS Windows?