Review: Gnome Shell

“The gnome shell desktop can be separated in two parts: the
desktop view (where you see either your desktop, or one or more
applications open where you can work on them), and the Activities
overview (where you have a panel with several functions and an
overview of you active workspaces and open applications organized
so that you see each application equally inside a workspace, and
where you can only drag them between workspaces and select one as
the active one). There’s innovation in both these parts, but I
believe most of it comes in the Activities overview.

“Personally, I love it. Getting to my intended application is
much easier now, because of a search box, which allows me to
quickly find an application or setting using related words, or the
name of the application. Before I had to either memorize it’s
command and execute it, or dig through menus and categories, and
hope I didn’t miss it in the middle of all the names. Gnome Shell
has this great advantage: it makes me use menus a lot less. Of
course I could have used gnome do, but for some reason I don’t like
it very much on my Desktop (of course that’s a matter of personal
taste), and it’s much easier to access the search future in gnome
shell (you only have to tap the super key and start writing, or
click in “Activities”).”

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