<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>subsection1h</author><text>&amp;gt; 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;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also a developer whose workflow involves several different tools. One of those tools is Firefox, and I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows. I want to be able to instantaneously switch from Emacs to a specific Firefox window. I don&amp;#x27;t want to switch from Emacs to Firefox and then switch to a specific Firefox window (e.g., using Alt+`) like some desktop environments force their users to do.&lt;p&gt;The best solution I&amp;#x27;ve found is to use a desktop environment or window manager that will display the Alt-Tab window list vertically with full titles displayed for all windows (which is similar to how I display tabs in Firefox using the Tree Style Tab extension). KDE and Openbox support this setup, and the last time I checked, Gnome didn&amp;#x27;t. So using Gnome would hurt my productivity.</text></item><item><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></item><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>ubernostrum</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a typical use case. I do periodically see people leaving comments which claim that they usually have the entire World Wide Web open simultaneously, but not often enough for it to be a use case worth optimizing for.</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>subsection1h</author><text>&amp;gt; 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;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also a developer whose workflow involves several different tools. One of those tools is Firefox, and I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows. I want to be able to instantaneously switch from Emacs to a specific Firefox window. I don&amp;#x27;t want to switch from Emacs to Firefox and then switch to a specific Firefox window (e.g., using Alt+`) like some desktop environments force their users to do.&lt;p&gt;The best solution I&amp;#x27;ve found is to use a desktop environment or window manager that will display the Alt-Tab window list vertically with full titles displayed for all windows (which is similar to how I display tabs in Firefox using the Tree Style Tab extension). KDE and Openbox support this setup, and the last time I checked, Gnome didn&amp;#x27;t. So using Gnome would hurt my productivity.</text></item><item><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></item><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>droelf</author><text>I see your (valid) point but I am also positive that you could, if you wanted to, create an simple js plugin for gnome shell that would have the desired effect, as others have created alternative alt+tab switchers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extensions.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;extension&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;alternatetab&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>