[clue] Gnome 3

[Chris Ernst]

You can try it with one of the live cds:

http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html

	- Chris

On 05/02/2011 06:42 AM, Mike Bean wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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