<story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.&lt;p&gt;Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&amp;#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&amp;#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&amp;#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).&lt;p&gt;My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Gnome is very usable for many of us.  I&amp;#x27;m tired of seeing the same &amp;#x27;it sucks as a productivity environment&amp;#x27; comments.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s not your preference, you can say that, but Gnome Shell is perfectly fine when it comes to productivity.  Quick app switching, searching, app launching, etc...  How do these things hurt productivity?&lt;p&gt;I personally dislike KDE, but that&amp;#x27;s just my taste.  Some people love XMonad or XFCE, and some people even like Unity.&lt;p&gt;Dunno, I&amp;#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt &amp;#x27;productivity&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.&lt;p&gt;Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&amp;#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&amp;#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&amp;#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).&lt;p&gt;My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rufugee</author><text>Barely usable? I&amp;#x27;d hardly call it that. I find it very usable. I don&amp;#x27;t quite like the alt+tab default functionality, but barely usable is really a stretch. I find it a very productive environment with no extensions whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do use a few extensions, and I&amp;#x27;m exploring writing ones as well. The fact that extensions are written in javascript is really nice (or awful, depending on how you feel about javascript). The built in debugger&amp;#x2F;console looking glass (type ALT+F2, then lg, the press enter) is very helpful, and window identification&amp;#x2F;selection is very simple. Being able to extend the environment in a relatively easy way with a scripting language is a big win in my book&lt;p&gt;ymmv, but I find it to be a nice environment. I&amp;#x27;m not 100% satisfied, but I&amp;#x27;m far more satisfied with it than, say, OSX or Windows, and slightly more satisfied with it than Unity or KDE.</text></comment>