Re: Disliking gnome 3

[Pasha R <pashar ml gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Greear <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
>

Welcome to the club. But, IMHO, complaining here won't help -
developers repeatedly stated that they won't change anything, and
probably will make things even worse. I'm staying with F14 while it is
supported and looking at KDE and XFCE as a possible future
replacement.