Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk writes: Now I've been running it for about a week I am really starting to like it EXCEPT FOR ONE THING I really wish the hot spot for shrinking the desktop could be moved to the bottom left. I keep accidentally using it when moving to the browser

[OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. That's exactly the problem, and precisely why I have moved on to

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:55:30 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: (...) PD: I think it run fine in relatively old computers (but maybe that is another issue, I don't know) PD2: Ok, I see you need 3d accel [1], not sense to me. [1]

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:06:31 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: (good Subject election :-P) Currently I'm using (as second main desktop, first is awesome ;) ) gnome3. I can read a lot of criticism about it What don't you like ing GNOME 3 - GNOME - Shell? I only see two things, but people sure

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 05 Nov 07:18 -0500, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:06:31 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: So, why people is hungry with it ? (...) I think you wanted to say angry, like the famous birds ;-) And yes, I feel more than angry when someone (or something) do not allow me to

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Nate Bargmann, 5.11.2011: On a whim I installed GNOME 3 (shell and fallback) recently and gave it a spin. Until I moved my xorg.conf out of the way both modes would fail upon startup. When I did get them running the only possible configuration for the second monitor is as an extended

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/11/11 09:06, Javier Barroso wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkomhvw59...@care2.com wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. That's exactly the

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 05 Nov 11:56 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: You probably don't mean this when you say slow...locked up, I meant exactly that because that's exactly the experience I had with GNOME3 shell. I never got to the point of typing *anything* since I couldn't get it to open an application.