When I began using Ubuntu about four years ago I was amazed, everything seemed to be right were I would have put it, the interface was remarkably ugly though, yet it was free, stable, and ran great on my old Toshiba. Gnome 3 takes the usability of Ubuntu and makes it top notch.
Some quickly noticeable things about the UI made it very intuitive:
- There is no need to click the menu, just bump the corner which makes it blindingly fast.
- The clock is right in the middle, making it significantly easier for your eyes to find the time than when the clock was in with the jumble of icons.
- The gnome-panel is dark and the windows are light, drawing your focus away from the panel, it disappears in your vision making the whole thing application-centric.
- Workspaces are incredibly easy to use and I might actually use them now.
- Opening applications and documents can be done from the keyboard much easier than now, the super key is actually used for something important.
- Windows don't have a minimize or maximize button (windows don't need to be minimized to the tray due to the fast window and workspace switcher) and maximize functions can be performed by double clicking the title bar, or by an aero-snap type functionality. The lack of buttons makes the whole thing clean.
- The few panel menus that exist are clean and consistent behaving in the same way and providing very useful menus.
- The control panel is finally integrated and looks amazing.
- There is an easy way to mark applications as trusted (chmod +x) from the GUI.
- It runs from a livecd, but doesn't like my nvidia graphics card when installed to the hard-drive (after the first time) The same goes for Ubuntu 11.04.
- There were no icons on the desktop (perhaps the desktop doesn't support them?) It was therefore hard to find the "Install to disk" .desktop file as it was on the desktop.
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