There was still a true bug because "gimme gimme gimme" appeared when calling "man -w", and that's the command they were using. But I still don't understand how a test could break because of this.
Hibernate can manage the client/server communication ? I thought it was just to manage the server/database communication, and we used OpenJPA for that, so it's kind of the same. My DAOs (yes the name isn't exactly the right one, but I tried to simplify) are for the client/server communication, and in my case for the GWT's RPC service implementation. And instead of having a lot of service (on for each screen for example), or a lot of method in one big service, I tried to have only one service.
And for the Date, JodaTime is awesome, but again, not compatible for the GWT's client-side. But yes, there is other solutions than the built-in Date.
Hibernate won't do client/server communication (or at least it's not its main focus); given what you've now said, the point is that you don't need more than one "DAO". After all, the implementation code is the same in all cases.
I have no graphic card, and just an old i5 from 2011. It doesn't eat much of my computer power. For a light processor maybe, but I can't talk about that.
You know just how hugely powerful an i5 processor is? the "no graphics card" that you actually have inside your CPU is more powerful than the latest gamer graphics card from 5 years ago. And consumes a lot of power too.
Gnome 2 ran quite fast on a 500 Mhz ARMv5, 200 milliWatts idle. Yes, it is a niche application, but it shows just how much hardware (and batteries!) Gnome 3 needs.
Your original post compared Gnome 3's performance to Windows 7. Windows RT is even snappier than Windows 7, and I doubt it'd be performant at all on the machine you mention.
Felipe here: I would also recommend another extension that provided window search abilities to the overview, so I could type "hacker news" or "handler.py" and go to the window I needed to, but it doesn't seem to be updated to gnome 3.6. I've been looking at the code and I can't figure out what is wrong with it.
The 'exploded' window view shows windows on current workspace so being able to select one from the keyboard means I can group the windows by task/project in different workspaces.
You can change the behaviour of the alt+tab via extension. I'm not sure I'm using one, but the first window selected by an alt+tab is the previous one.
Like other comments, I don't need to reload or log out my gnome shell when adding an extension.
But it's true that I used Shell only for the last 6 months, so I'm not really aware of the broken extension problem, but it's clear that it can be a huge probleme, especially because even though Shell is good, it misses some things out of the box that are really useful, like I said in my blog post.
What distro are you running Gnome on? I ran 3.6 on Archlinux and some extensions didn't come up automatically. For example, the gnome-shell-system-monitor doesn't apply changes without log-out (I am not sure about reload, never tried that).
