Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3

Post by thristian » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 11:32 PM UTC

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i hated gnome3 at first. i even stayed on gnome2 for quite a while to avoid the upgrade. as it seemed inevitable, i bit the bullet and upgraded. linux is my only OS so i use gnome3 all the time. i have grown quite fond of it. what's best is that it hides so many of the distracting ui elements (either on purpose or simply because so many widgets just don't work) that used to pull me away from my work that i feel i'm a…

That's exactly my experience too. I used unity on a netbook for a while and just couldn't make it work -- too many edge cases (even to the extent of getting my preferred side-by-side terminal and emacs to work cleanly). I stuck with it for a while, but never really came around. I similarly tried gnome-shell when Fedora 15 was released and hated it, but stuck with it for the same reasons. And it paid off. I'm a conver…

Post by ajross » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 5:43 PM UTC

thristian wrote: post #51

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That's exactly my experience too. I used unity on a netbook for a while and just couldn't make it work -- too many edge cases (even to the extent of getting my preferred side-by-side terminal and emacs to work cleanly). I stuck with it for a while, but never really came around. I similarly tried gnome-shell when Fedora 15 was released and hated it, but stuck with it for the same reasons. And it paid off. I'm a conver…

Just checking: when alt-tabbing, you know you can pause on the Terminal icon (or hit the down arrow) and switch between all your terminal windows that way, right? Granted, it's not as convenient as having all your terminals available from one keypress, but it's better than having to switch to the mouse. Also, if you want Nautilus icons on the desktop, that option's available in gnome-tweak-tools (although I just foun…