I really have to ask this question, since 14.10 is giving me some very negative feelings. Sure, things are working fairly well and of course I am not the greatest OS builder. Still, I am seeing some things outside the realm of my building skills. Now, I love Linux, but I am hoping these things will do a turn around since these are very important aspects(I feel) that makes Linux very special to me. Also, those with great knowledge that have ideas to fix these problems would be great to have your advice as others are also suffering these pangs of 14.10.
First we have Plymouth. On the boot, bye bye plymouth theme, just does not work and thus far no cure for us mere mortals is in sight. Sure there is some complex way, but thus far with my skills, I really do not understand how to fix it. Ubuntu seems to not care this is an issue and just leaves it open.
Next we get to my favorite desktop which is very upsetting. A new design was done on Gnome Tweak and the outcome of it absolutely torches any themes I have created in the past. Some how aspects of the buttons/dropdowns also are contained in the immediate area surrounding the button/dropdown allowing for now separation. So, when I use an image, that image is also surrounding the button, which looks like a turd in a fish bowl. Now, if this aspect was contained in every button, maybe would be alright, but of course is not the case all buttons are not created equal. Of course, if you lack creativity and choose everything to look flat and dismal, it may not have no bearing on theme creation.
Next, active windows have gone to pots on Nemo and many other programs. I guess knowing where we are in location of our desktops is no longer of any importance whatsoever. All settings for Nemo do nothing on gtk-3.0. I have lines and lines of script that make no difference whatsoever on Nemo. The beautiful pathbar I came to thoroughly enjoy with its great functionality has been replaced by cheap looking buttons. Now, I can accept change and looks, but functionality, I have a real issue with. When I am using a file manager be it Nemo, Nautilus, PCMan, I want my location lit up like a light bulb and not hiding in the dark. I am very annoyed and you know ------- off that is dropped and now we are free to get lost in the middle of our file systems. Turning into Windows with that one.
I have tried everything I know of to get that active window to light up, but it stays dark with very and I mean very lame text coloring. Sure, you will say my themes are to blame, but how bout if I tell you same exists on even theme TheeMahn created? You have to really look good to tell that Font of the active window is actually a bit bolder than the others. That effect happens with every theme I have seen, my own included. Now, if I was able to find the exact wording for script, so could fix it in the theme would be happy, but no words I have read or can find make a single difference to Nemo, so I really give a bravo to lousy progress on that and maybe will just boycott Nemo if those words from its developer are not made available to us theme creators so we can once again show that active window as it is meant to be shown.
Next, we have the bottom panel of Gnome Flashback. Of course we know Gnome is aching to dissolve Flashback, so I suspect the nightmares they have invented with messing script up for bottom panel and destroying Gnome Tweak, will help them get their wish. Even on the Gnome and Gnome-Classic desktops the active window on the bottom panel works correctly, so that is how I base my opinion. See Flashback has been around a few years and this has never been an issue. Now, active window on bottom panel does not happen in any theme you see anywhere. Sure active is there, but you have to click on that open window, which is not correct and has never worked that way. As users, that walk away for a few moments, I hope they keep track of exactly what they were working on if they are on Flashback or this will mess them up.
Not sure how many people out here are using the Flashback desktop and are aware of how badly the aspect of Gnome Tweak and these buttons have mangled everything else that functions in a similar manner. Some buttons on Gedit will not light up, since some of their qualities resemble the surrounding area of those drop downs on gnome-tweak. I hate to say, but Gnome Tweak was nice looking back when 3.8 was around but has become severely ugly now and is also very detrimental to many aspects of theme creation, which plain sucks.
I would really love to hear some opinions on all this, if it matters that things work right or not? Have to face it even if you are not using Gnome Flashback, you may be using others that rely on gtk-3.0 and with these errors, I will guarantee you are going to suffer the pangs. Either that or you really do not use your computer for much more than emailing others.