Lol sure does if you ask me. I hadn’t even realized until you brought it up, but Gnome 2 was my first ever DE way back when I tried Ubuntu for the first time nearly decades ago. Time sure flies!
Pretty much the same except there was a few years of Xfce in-between. But yep, pretty much still rocking the 2 panel setup. All the menus and tray icons at the top, just a large taskbar at the bottom for all the windows.
It’s a really good layout honestly, I’m not sure how we got from that by default to being forced to use that stupid activities overview thing other than trying way too hard to have the same bad UX as macOS. Why would I want to shuffle all my windows around just so I can click on the one I want when I can just… press its button in the taskbar to bring it up without inducing motion sickness. It’s seriously disturbing when you’re in front of 3x27 inch monitors. It’s like it’s designed exclusively to be like a MacBook or an iMac.
I sure did! I came from Gnome 2 and the first thing I did once I started to use KDE5 was emulating the two horizontal panels design!
That counts, right?
Lol sure does if you ask me. I hadn’t even realized until you brought it up, but Gnome 2 was my first ever DE way back when I tried Ubuntu for the first time nearly decades ago. Time sure flies!
Pretty much the same except there was a few years of Xfce in-between. But yep, pretty much still rocking the 2 panel setup. All the menus and tray icons at the top, just a large taskbar at the bottom for all the windows.
It’s a really good layout honestly, I’m not sure how we got from that by default to being forced to use that stupid activities overview thing other than trying way too hard to have the same bad UX as macOS. Why would I want to shuffle all my windows around just so I can click on the one I want when I can just… press its button in the taskbar to bring it up without inducing motion sickness. It’s seriously disturbing when you’re in front of 3x27 inch monitors. It’s like it’s designed exclusively to be like a MacBook or an iMac.