how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?
Krishnakant Mane
krmane at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 19:12:45 UTC 2013
That seems fairly good enough.
I would think that 3.8 has more improvemnets, but don't know really how
to set it up on Ubuntu 13.04.
Happy hacking.
krishnakant.
On 04/26/2013 11:25 PM, PiƱeiro wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 05:46 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
>> Hello all,
> Hello,
>
> sorry, I'm arriving somewhat late.
>
>> I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for a
>> complete daily desktop?
>> As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous queries,
>> many suggest that Unity is still as good as 12.04.
>> But I understand that Gnome shell 3.6 is much more accessible than
>> 3.4. Is this correct?
> Yes, GNOME Shell 3.6 is more accessible that 3.4.
>
>> If yes, then how good would it be as compared to Unity 2d?
> Never compared with unity2d sorry.
>
>> do we have some thing similar to heads up display?
>> Can I access the top panel where wifi settings or other system related
>> options can be accessed?
> Yes. As Luke mentioned (and it is a good point that I didn't take into
> account), wireless strength is not exposed. But you can access the
> panel, and looking for available wifis. The problem about knowing which
> one is the current selected was also fixed.
>
>> Is the menu bar totally accessible?
> AFAIK yes.
>
>> Any other advantage or prominent improvements over Gnome shell 3.4?
> Most of the UI was reviewed in order to check missing names and roles.
> GNOME Shell 3.4 was "good enough" to do some tests with orca in order to
> improve it. GNOME Shell 3.6 was the first usable version by orca users,
> imho.
>
> Right now, the only missing spots that I can remember right now (some of
> them already mentioned) are:
> * Wifi strengh, mentioned on this thread (I will create a bug about
> this shortly)
> * Laptop battery level (althought fwiw, it reads the remaining amount
> of time) bug#684464
> * Volume level on the volume slider bug#648623
>
> BR
>
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