While I use the GNOME 3 Shell in my day-to-day work, I am not a fan of many of its features. Things that used take one click not take several clicks, the fact that a specific chat (poor) mechanism is built into the interface, the extremely poor notification paradigm and more.
I am also annoyed by the “we know best attitude” of the small closed group of core developers and designers who pretend to be an welcoming open group and to accept input from regular users or developers but in fact are not and do not. Just read the archives of the GNOME Shell or the Desktop Development mailing lists and you will understand my annoyance.
Anyway, recently the lead designer of the GNOME 3 Shell (and also of the dumb down the interface movement), Jon McCann, gave an interesting about the future of GNOME 3; which is worth reading if only to understand his viewpoint.
McCann also appears to have a unique perspective on what an operating system is:
So the operating system basically in my terms is the experience of the system, it’s composed of the user experience and the developer experience.
Huh?
