Re: Disliking gnome 3

[Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com>]

On 08/30/2011 01:24 PM, Nick Glynn wrote:
> Hey Ben,
>
> Gnome 2 hasn't gone anywhere. It's not been taken away. It's just not under active development by the Gnome Foundation any more though I believe some people are
> working on a fork at http://matsusoft.com.ar/redmine/projects/mate if that's of interest.
>
> I doubt any future Fedora releases will sate your requests as they tend to track upstream Gnome but, as that's a distribution choice, you may be better off
> emailing the Fedora Desktop List at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop

Yes, I saw that mate thing..looks promising, but long term, unless it
gets into a distribution, it's probably not going to stay very active.

We ship a fair amount of linux machines to our customers, and I would
much rather keep to standard distro packages if possible.  For now, that
means staying with F14, but eventually we'll have to move forward, or
perhaps to a new distribution.

The fedora forums pretty much say to complain to gnome, since fedora is
going to follow upstream gnome, or at least that is the current plan.

I don't really want to argue with anyone about how they should run their
project..I'm obviously free to go use xfce, kde, or whatever.

But, I did want to give my feedback to the project developers just
in case it helps them realize that perhaps their new features are not
as well received as they thought they would be.

Thanks,
Ben


> Hope that helps,
> Nick
>
> On 30 August 2011 19:45, Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com <mailto:greearb candelatech com>> wrote:
>
>     I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3,
>     so I'm posting here.
>
>     I really just want gnome-2 back.  Fallback mode sort of works, but its
>     still not as good as gnome 2 was.  I do work on my computer, not just
>     open one or two windows and browse the web.  I want one-click to open
>     new Terminals.  I want to drag the Terminal icon into the top task bar
>     to accomplish that.  Right-click should work without having to press
>     Alt.  I want the bottom task dock or whatever it's called so I can easily select
>     from the multitude of windows I have on my desktop.
>
>     Please have a one-click (or very few clicks) option to get the old
>     gnome-2 interface back.  If you want to have a new way of doing things,
>     that's fine too, but please don't break the old ways of doing things
>     so badly.
>
>     I'm downgrading to Fedora 14 for now..hope things clear up by
>     F16 or F17.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Ben
>
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