[clue] Gnome 3

[Mike Bean]

Yeah, but I won't know whether I like it or not until I do actual work with
it, unless this is one of those situations like in a dual boot where the
live CD's can read other filesystems installed on the disk, I don't see how
we can do much more then poke around.  (Considering changes aren't
permanent.)

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Chris Ernst <penguin-guy at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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