[clue] Gnome 3

[Mike Bean]

I'm really curious about Gnome shell.  Looking forward to trying it, but I
haven't figured out how to get it loaded and working on any of my boxes
yet.  Short of loading the fedora beta, which I had a fair amount of trouble
getting to work.  In advance of Ubuntu's adoption of Unity, I deserted them
and am running Linux Mint, but seeing as how mint by and large uses the same
repos as Ubuntu, I'm expecting it will be a while before I get a chance to
try it.

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Dennis J Perkins <
dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Arch Linux has switched to Gnome 2, so I have it on my laptop now.  It
> uses Gnome Shell instead of Ubuntu's Unity.  My initial impression is that
> it is merely change for the sake of change instead of an actual
> improvement.  Many people are going to hate it as passionately as others
> hate KDE 4.
>
> I don't see any way to put icons or documents on the desktop.  I sometimes
> like to put working documents on the desktop and I see no reason why someone
> should decide that I should not be able to do that.
>
> The old menus are gone.  The newer method takes more work.  I'm probably
> going to rely more on Cairo Dock.
>
> The old applets are gone.  The new ones take up more room and there are a
> few bugs, such as not showing up in the same position after rebooting, even
> when they are supposed to be locked to one position.
>
> Multiple desktops are gone.  At least, I haven't found out how to make it
> work.
>
> It also wants to use an accelerated graphics card or Gnome Shell will not
> run.  The new Metacity window manager runs instead and its new look is very
> similar to Gnome Shell but doesn't have the same capabilities.  My laptop
> has accelerated graphics but it wasn't turned on and I had to find out how
> to turn it on.
>
> I can't change the screensaver.  Before I could run xscreensaver or Gnome
> Screensaver.  The only thing I can change is how long before it kicks in.
>
> Hmm.  I haven't found anything yet that I consider an improvement.
>
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