N.B.: What follows is obviously all opinion: I can't stand Unity, and the default settings for Gnome 3 drove me nuts.
If you are willing to put the effort in, you can install a bunch of extensions that will make it at least approach the usability of Gnome 2. I recommend: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/gnome32.html http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/official-gnome-shell-extensions.html After installing, restart Gnome, and then use the 'Advanced Settings' menu (which is actually a shortcut to the tool Bob mentioned, gnome-tweak-tool) to enable the extensions you want. I was able to almost achieve what I had in Gnome 2 by doing this - although there are still some annoyances. I really don't understand why Gnome3 took this giant step backwards, and Canonical took Ubuntu even further backwards with Unity. Cheers, Ben On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini <wwvi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just a couple of lines to cast my ballot in favor of Bob's complaint. > > I had the same reaction in response to Fedora 15 reception of the Gnome3 > thing. > That stuff does move too far away from the power-user-desktop concept I've > been enjoying for several years as a developer. > > Also I'm a bit frustrated to have to go after that load of "tweaks" in > order to get a freshly installed system usable. > > my best regards to everybody there > > vince > > > 2011/10/17 Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> > >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Install gnome-tweak-tools to get advanced settings for gnome to be able >> to >> >> get your favorite settings after you install gnome-shell. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/10/03/install-gnome-shell-in-ubuntu-11-10/ >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Bob McGwier >> >>> Facebook: N4HYBob >> >>> ARS: N4HY >> > >> > Or do what I did: apt-get install gnome-session-fallback and switch to >> Gnome >> > Classic Mode at the login screen. Removes Unity. >> > I haven't heard anyone say a good thing about Unity. It's an awful >> > environment to develop under. The first thing I do in Ubuntu now is stop >> > using it. >> > I'm now shopping around for another Linux distro if they keep going this >> > way. >> > Tom >> >> On Ubuntu 11.04 I have installed Xfce desktop ( http://www.xfce.org/ ) >> - it is available via the package manager (or by installing xubuntu >> instead of regular ubuntu). It is similar to Gnome 2 and is very >> lightweight. >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> > > > > -- > Vincenzo Pellegrini > http://www.youtube.com/user/wwvince1 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > >
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