Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes

"The GNOME design seems to be increasingly tailored for simplicity and to accommodate touchscreen interaction on small displays. The look is appealing and the general approach is consistent with broader industry trends, but it raises some tough questions.

GNOME once appeared to have a promising future on mobile devices, but those days are long past. Efforts to turn GNOME into a mainstream mobile platform have repeatedly failed. Today, use of the conventional upstream GNOME environment is largely confined to a niche audience of technical users.

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