Most users come from a Windows background, so they’re used to the “simplicity” of its start menu.
I think it’s that it’s jarring to go from “let me add a new thing to what I am doing” to “I need something new. EVERYTHING GO AWAY SO I CAN LOOK AT WHAT I WANT”
Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen? That seems like the silliest thing to care about… it’s there for 2 seconds while you type the name of the app you want, and letting you focus on that task. It’s not like I’m browsing the web in the background while I wait for the start-menu-equivalent.
Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen?
yep
That seems like the silliest thing to care about
well, I find it jarring. It’s my preference/feeling/aesthetic and I’m entitled to it. There are enough ways to do that don’t take up the whole screen that my opinion must be fairly common. Macs have spotlight, the start bar that has existed forever, Krunner…
Of course you’re entitled to your preference, no debating that.
I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.
I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.
That’s interesting. what separates the two for you? Because I dislike them both for the same reason. Is it the subtle blur and transparency for gnome?
I think that’s it: simply blurring the background instead of just disappearing, it makes it feel like it’s not “gone”; just not the current focus, so to speak.
I also was on Ubuntu for a lot of the time while they were fooling around with “Unity” so I’m sure my experience is skewed compared to a clean pure gnome setup.
I think it’s that it’s jarring to go from “let me add a new thing to what I am doing” to “I need something new. EVERYTHING GO AWAY SO I CAN LOOK AT WHAT I WANT”
Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen? That seems like the silliest thing to care about… it’s there for 2 seconds while you type the name of the app you want, and letting you focus on that task. It’s not like I’m browsing the web in the background while I wait for the start-menu-equivalent.
yep
well, I find it jarring. It’s my preference/feeling/aesthetic and I’m entitled to it. There are enough ways to do that don’t take up the whole screen that my opinion must be fairly common. Macs have spotlight, the start bar that has existed forever, Krunner…
Of course you’re entitled to your preference, no debating that.
I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.
That’s interesting. what separates the two for you? Because I dislike them both for the same reason. Is it the subtle blur and transparency for gnome?
I think that’s it: simply blurring the background instead of just disappearing, it makes it feel like it’s not “gone”; just not the current focus, so to speak.
I also was on Ubuntu for a lot of the time while they were fooling around with “Unity” so I’m sure my experience is skewed compared to a clean pure gnome setup.