> I'd still really like someone who groks what Gnome3 is all about to fill > in these blanks in my understanding with truthiness ;-)
Apparently the main drive is to have a brand, so a constant and so simple look is recognised as a Gnome/? machine. A bit pointless if no-one uses it or changes to something better (negative brand). >> The gnome3 devs may intend to restore the missing stuff at some point, but I >> don't know, and meanwhile I'm frustrated and my attitude is deteriorating. Certainly not all unless they change the 'Brand' position. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________