[clue] Gnome 3

[Charles W Downing]

Sure, with some time, it could recognize the wireless interface.  I was 
just comparing my experiences between the systems.  I am just using the 
live CD on memory sticks.  With further testing, both Gnome3s recognize 
the wireless system on my older System76 box.  System76 would have to 
tell us why, I guess.

On 05/02/2011 12:28 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> Sounds like you need to install a wireless driver.  Did you install 
> Gnome 3 or just test it with a live CD?  Did you need to install the 
> wireless driver separately?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles W Downing" <chuckdowning at earthlink.net>
> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 2, 2011 12:06:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue] Gnome 3
>
> I have a System76 Pangolin laptop, which I bought in 2008.  I have 
> downloaded and burned to memory sticks both openSUSE and Fedora 
> versions of Gnome3.  From a memory stick, both boot up and seem to 
> work "as designed".  There are some good things and some bad things 
> about the live versions.
>
> 1.  The Fedora version can change timezones, but it may have changed 
> the internal clock.  The openSUSE version can also change the 
> timezone, but, coming second, it didn't find the correct current time.
>
> 2.  Both recognize the built-in System76 quirks.
>
> 3. I agree that the interface will take some getting used to, but 
> that's probably to be expected.
>
> Now, for a disappointment.  I also have a System76 Pangolin laptop, 
> which I just bought this year.  It is last year's model, since I got 
> it on "close-out".   I have rejected Gnome3 out-of-hand for this 
> machine because neither version recognizes the wireless interface.  I 
> have installed both Linux Mint 10 and Ubuntu 11.04 on this box and 
> they both use the wireless system from the "git-go".  They do require 
> my manual intervention to fire it up, but Gnome3 doesn't even realise 
> that the interface is there.  I could find no (easy) way to even hunt 
> for this hardware in the menus.
>
> Ah well, back to finding things on the old box.
>
> On 05/01/2011 10:35 PM, Dennis J Perkins 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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