<story><title>Introducing GNOME 46, &quot;Kathmandu&quot;</title><url>https://release.gnome.org/46/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>&amp;gt; remains a huge usability misstep&lt;p&gt;Evidence? The Gnome project has performed UX studies[0] to validate their design, and has continually made changes in response (some of which I disagree with, FWIW).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Design&amp;#x2F;Studies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Design&amp;#x2F;Studies&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>softirq</author><text>GNOME has come a long way, but its stubborn insistence on not having a desktop with a real application launcher remains a huge usability misstep. GNOME&amp;#x27;s marketshare &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the desktop, and so the initial value proposition of a hybrid UI seems very much wishful thinking, while the keyboard based workflows it seems to want to enable are better served by tiling WM such as Sway, and do not make sense for the &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; WM that is picked up by casual converts who are used to a point and click system. Overall it&amp;#x27;s just a confusing mess for new users, which Canonical&amp;#x2F;System76 rationally get rid of (which is probably a majority of the GNOME user base).&lt;p&gt;So why does GNOME continue down this path. Is it a fear of being &amp;quot;just like everyone else&amp;quot; by using a tried and true dock&amp;#x2F;application bar? Is it a desire to not be the front running WM and be more &amp;quot;niche&amp;quot; to power users? I still don&amp;#x27;t really understand their decision making process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>softirq</author><text>You just linked to studies that directly support my point:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On the other hand, new users generally got up to speed more quickly with Endless OS, often due to its similarity to Windows. Many of these testers found the bottom panel to be an easy way to switch applications. They also made use of the minimize button. In comparison, both GNOME 3.38 and the prototype generally took more adjustment for these users.&lt;p&gt;“I really liked that it’s similar to the Windows display that I have.”
—Comment on Endless OS by a non-GNOME user&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing GNOME 46, &quot;Kathmandu&quot;</title><url>https://release.gnome.org/46/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>&amp;gt; remains a huge usability misstep&lt;p&gt;Evidence? The Gnome project has performed UX studies[0] to validate their design, and has continually made changes in response (some of which I disagree with, FWIW).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Design&amp;#x2F;Studies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Design&amp;#x2F;Studies&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>softirq</author><text>GNOME has come a long way, but its stubborn insistence on not having a desktop with a real application launcher remains a huge usability misstep. GNOME&amp;#x27;s marketshare &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the desktop, and so the initial value proposition of a hybrid UI seems very much wishful thinking, while the keyboard based workflows it seems to want to enable are better served by tiling WM such as Sway, and do not make sense for the &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; WM that is picked up by casual converts who are used to a point and click system. Overall it&amp;#x27;s just a confusing mess for new users, which Canonical&amp;#x2F;System76 rationally get rid of (which is probably a majority of the GNOME user base).&lt;p&gt;So why does GNOME continue down this path. Is it a fear of being &amp;quot;just like everyone else&amp;quot; by using a tried and true dock&amp;#x2F;application bar? Is it a desire to not be the front running WM and be more &amp;quot;niche&amp;quot; to power users? I still don&amp;#x27;t really understand their decision making process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobo_mark</author><text>We just deployed RHEL9 and had to quickly revert gnome because users (and me!) had no effing idea how to use it.&lt;p&gt;For instance, no button to minimize and maximize a window, no taskbar to switch between windows, what the actual...</text></comment>