My friend arc posted a list of the worst things in GNOME 2.8 (in Spanish). These are my comments (in italic):
- Non homogeneus and outdated developer docs. BIG CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
- Applets consume too many system resources:
arc 5635 0.0 2.5 16844 6416 ? S Dec08 0:01 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
- Lack of integrated and official multimedia player.It will be fixed on next releases with Totem, rb and sound-juicer aditions
- Non high quality pdf support. Dude, have you tried Evince?
- Printer configutarion is not solid neither stable.I hadn’t have a printer anytime before, buf configuring at work the SMB ones with my FC2 “just worked” ™
- Where is no easy way to change between users and having simultaneus sessions.Have you tried Jimbob’s User Selector Applet?. Maybe it should be included on GNOME 2.12 🙂
- Cannot manage user account. Revelation?
- Lack of an IDE/RAD tool. 100% agree
- Lack of “whole” theme file format.
- File-roller needs to extract the full archive to /tmp when droping a single file