Lots of users are confused by the recent moves of both GNOME and Ubuntu. They are substantive and both are much changed. There are many similarities and a few notable differences, so it is hard to keep it all straight. Most readers know that it is just change and are resistive. Reading about the changes and actually dealing with them is enlightening. Unfortunately Ubuntu is built on a GNOME 2.x framework and is incompatible with GNOME 3, so you cannot have both installed at once. With 11.10 that will change. It is being built on a GNOME 3 framework, so you can run them side by side and see what the buzz is all about. The downside of this is that you lose classic GNOME with 11.10.
As to what they are moving towards, GNOME and Canonical have ambitions to make the computer easy to use for anyone. Unity is also trying to keep advanced users by providing many hotkeys for everything and adding lenses and improving configuration. I think that GNOME is sticking with the plan of keeping it more locked down, although GNOME Tweak may add features to work around the limitations. Since GNOME 3 and Unity lack a panel and the system tray is either non-existent or very controlled, it is not good for users who need this capability. I would recommend either XFCE or KDE for those users. I use a radio application to listen to internet radio and it runs from the system tray (Radiotray) and when I am in Unity or GNOME 3 I immediately feel the lack of love because I work with background noise in addition to having lots on my desktop and multi-task like nobody's business. Most users do not work my way and may not feel its limitations. I hope they will give both an honest try because they are both good in their own way. Roy Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit Location: Canada On 3 July 2011 12:44, c beck <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Not all. GNOME 3 does not allow anything to minimise (no buttons) and > > there is no system tray > > Wow, I completely forgot about the lacking buttons in Gnome 3. I > remember reading about their rationale for doing that in amazement. > One fell swoop to turn a highly functional desktop into the equivalent > of what the Windows Mobile operating system has been since 2003. I > can see what they are trying to move towards, though... > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
