On 02/12/2013 12:26 PM, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded.
>
> Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone
> knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo?
Heh. That's a complicate
On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts
> on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly
> nothing.
That's exactly my problem with gnome3 in a sentence. I don't hate gnome-shell
as an interfac
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote:
[...]
> IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :)
I think it would be easier if you tried a LiveCD:
http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
For what is worth, I find myself more productive and much more at ease
with GNOME 3 than with GNOME 2 (or any
Thanks for the reply! I agree that it is complicated, and that the direction of
Gnome is mysterious. I've been using it at work, and I've enjoyed some things
about it. Some other choices are puzzling. I'm interested to stick around to
see where it will go.
On 13/02/2013 06:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote:
> [...]
>> IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :)
>
> I think it would be easier if you tried a LiveCD:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
>
> For what is worth, I find myself more product
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:12 AM, walt wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts
>> on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly
>> nothing.
>
> That's exactly my problem with gnome3 i
On 13/02/13 at 12:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Purely out of morbid curiosity, I've just spent an hour playing with the
> Gnome 3 LiveCd in a VM.
>
> What I'm seeing is a KDE4 ripoff, done badly, plus a few MacOS-isms and
> some ideas from Unity:
>
> - Highly generic launcher on the left, just li
> I'm happy to be shown to be wrong and to be shown where Gnome3 has merit
> for being itself, where it can proudly stand on it's own. But I'm just
> not seeing it yet
I thought the following brilliant feature was obvious?
So your Gran has absolutely no chance of finding the "power off" button
so
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>> I'm happy to be shown to be wrong and to be shown where Gnome3 has merit
>> for being itself, where it can proudly stand on it's own. But I'm just
>> not seeing it yet
>
> I thought the following brilliant feature was obvious?
>
> So your
> If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation
> you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I
> have it, powering off from the console and all.
I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't consider
holding ALT to change the suspend opti
On Wed, Feb 13 2013, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>> If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation
>> you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I
>> have it, powering off from the console and all.
>
> I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn
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