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September 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
First Draft of GNOME 3.0 Roadmap Looking Good
Recently, an early draft of a semi-unofficial art roadmap for the much-discussed GNOME 3.0 was proposed. Though nothing here is ground-breaking, it is the kind of thing we need. Here are a few of the interesting points from the roadmap:
- Seamless transition from login to desktop, without a splash screen.
- New wallpapers, possibly to be found through a competition.
- Animations to smooth everything.
- “Dock mode” with large icons.
- An updated and more modern website.
All of these points are good, but for a proposed date of March 2010, we need more. Keep in mind that this is not supposed to be a roadmap for all of GNOME 3.0, just the art and UI part, but I still think that more should be done. Right now, this is a good starting point and I agree with basically everthing in it, but there should be more. I am not suggesting a KDE 4-style change, but more ideas like the dock mode need to be at least proposed, even if only a few of them are actually implemented.
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I use Gnome all the time because it is easy and most of all productive. Sometimes I think we want change because we get bored, not because something needs fixing. I installed Avant Window Manager after messin with the very pretty DreamLinux, but in reality, I found it took up too much screen real estate, and did nothing to aid productivity. It is easy to forget just how good the modern desktops are.