Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Dec 2003 22:48 UTC
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
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I can accomplish pretty much everything I want to using Gnome 2.4.1 and whilst I would like new features to play with an enhance my experience, the one key thing they should focus on that will make everybody happy is efficiency.
Mozilla starts up is less than 2 seconds, if that. Epiphany can take up to 5 or 6 seconds yet it is supposed to be native, leaner, and meaner.
Many of the smaller applications, like the calculator or most of the games, take more than 5 seconds to start when they should be nearly instantaneous.
There needs to be a concerted effort on the speed and efficiency of Gtk2 and the apps that use it. Then people will have a snappier, quicker desktop and implicitly a better Gnome experience.