They have a term in medicine called "contraindication". Basically, when there are contraindications, (downsides), the risks and benefits of a treatment are weighed, and if the benefits outweigh the potential complications, it might be worth trying regardless. Test subjects sign on for trials because they feel the risks are acceptable. The AC may not fall into this category, but that doesn't mean (s)he's wrong if they don't choose to 'sign up' to have this done unnecessarily. I wonder if you'd have had a similar reaction if someone suggested injecting a fungus into the bloodstream... sounds horrifying, but how many lives has penicillin saved?

Perhaps if the right people make Snowden seem like a mad brilliant genius, the public will brush aside questions of how secure processes at the NSA are?

Heh.... looks like not everyone made it out of June... I've had months like that.

Sunday? June 21st was a Friday!

Which is the broadside of a spherical space station?

The Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed.

What about NCSA Mosaic? I still remember the first time I accessed the Internet without telnet or FTP... The 'web' may not have been just a piece of software, and this certainly wasn't the first web browser, but it is really the browser that introduced the world wide web to the masses... and one can trace it's lineage straight through to Firefox.

...this.

Hey, don't be so quick to discard that line of thinking. That is -exactly- what led to innovations like this one.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying your example could be refined.

Eh... good question. I think I spend less time putzing about with an interface if I feel comfortable with it. I've learned to use Gnome in a manner that lets me focus on the work I'm doing instead of the actual interface itself.

Now, how to measure any differences in productivity in a quantitative way? No idea. Perhaps I just regurgitated that term with no real evidence to present other than how I feel about it while I am working.

That doesn't work so well for locating apps by description or name. On my system: windows key + 'ca' + tab (Libre Calc is the second result at this point), + enter. Done. Or, launch the term, type 'loff', then tab, then '--calc'. The command line offers auto-completion, and no mistake, this is useful - in fact there are situations where I use this quite often, but for launching some piece of software when I don't need a shell, why should I bother?

That aside, I'm well aware other desktop environments offer some sort of search functionality. I was merely pointing out that since Gnome has no immediate plans to reverse course, Gnome 3.x is probably not the DE you're looking for. Like I said, lots of other options.

Perhaps my previous post was viewed as inflammatory by a lot of sensitive people who feel betrayed - but I'm not the one who is complaining, and I'm certainly not the one who is betraying. I just happen to like the new Gnome interface, and I suspect, in spite of the hostile nature of this thread, that I'm not the only one.

Man, there are a lot of bitter people on /. If you don't like Gnome, you'll be using XFCE or KDE or Mate or Cinnamon or something - we already know. Quit complaining about something you don't even use anymore. Every time 'Gnome' is in a post topic, we get all the same people rambling on about the same stuff, and Gnome users like myself barely bother reading anymore.

Linux has a lot of choice for a reason. Just grab the desktop you like and roll with it. If you don't like it anymore, grab a different one.

I actually like the 3.x interface and I've never used it on a touch device. Yes, it is a bold departure, but I find it makes me more productive all in all. I dislike nested menus - always have. I can't think of a bigger waste of time than browsing a nested menu system looking for an app, and if you're using the 'Applications' view in Gnome 3.x, you're definitely doing things the hard way. Hitting the 'Windows' key, typing the first few characters of my target software, and then the 'Enter' key to launch apps makes a lot of sense. The quick gesture of ramming my mouse into the corner to arrange work-spaces works great.

Or... it was approved by someone who knew exactly what a tape is, and the frenzy of yelling and yapping the topic would produce.