Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

[Bob Frazier <bobf mrp3 com>]

On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped:
> Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times.  I read your
> page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much useful information.

it's not HOW MUCH information, but rather "putting it all in one place". 
I spent too much FRUSTRATING time when I installed Ubuntu 11.10 for a 
particular customer project, trying to figure out HOW TO USE SOMETHING 
that should have been intuitively obvious (but was not).  I had to come 
up with the right magick google search terms and check MANY places 
(usually blog sites and mailing list archives with unresolved similar 
problems).  By putting the CRITICAL information in ONE PLACE, people 
like me SHOULD be able to resolve this fast.  By letting YOU guys know 
about it, YOU should be able to put a "magic setting" button someplace 
to HELP PEOPLE GET PAST THIS QUICKLY.  Perhaps the 'hint' is that there 
ARE frustrated users who don't like gnome 3 PRIMARILY because of "Oh, 
CRAP now I have to RE-LEARN what I was once an EXPERT on" and "I don't 
have the necessary hours to waste re-doing this simply so I can get 
hardware support from the new version of XX" (or similar).  Linus 
Torvalds talked about updating his RH version to correct issues with X11 
in one of the links on my site, and his FRUSTRATION with the fact that 
the update included gnome 3.  But I must say that from what I read a 
year ago, there HAVE been improvements, like the minimize and maximize 
buttons - or was that simply what Debian did to correct THAT deficiency?


> You could look at the multiple extensions at extensions.gnome.org, you
> can get a panel and all sorts of other goodies from there.  Getting
> icons on desktop is easy, install gnome-tweak-tool.

All of that TAKES PERSONAL TIME on the part of EVERYONE ELSE.  Why can't 
these things be included as STANDARD FEATURES?  Why?  If enough people 
WANT them, it's only BETTER if these features were on a standard 
settings dialog box.  Maybe a single checkbox under system settings that 
says "classic look", or a theme, or similar.  That's all it would take. 
 End of frustration.  Simple, right?  No more hours of searching to 
figure out what you MIGHT need to fix these problems.  Or, BETTER STILL, 
an FAQ DOCUMENTATION PAGE with a link that has the same stuff my page 
has, plus all of YOUR experiences with the extensions and so on, as "hey 
this is how you do it'.  That would make MORE sense, don't you think? 
Documentation, after all, is a GOOD thing.  I haven't found any that 
tells me everything I need, without going to zillions of dead-end google 
search results to find "that one", and only a piece of what I need at that.