It's worth keeping in mind that the fallback mode the Gnome developers had provided in 3.0-3.6 is being removed in 3.8, in favour of a strictly gnome-shell based desktop. Even on systems that lack hardware acceleration, software rendering of these elements is reportedly very quick.
They are adding a few officially supported extensions to the shell that can optionally make the experience a bit more like Gnome 2.x, but almost certainly less than that of the old fallback mode. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Johannes Rohr <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear GNOME developers, > > I really appreaciate that there is a fallback mode in Wheezy, as I have > difficulties coming to terms with the GNOME shell. Now, what strikes me > is the, in my view ugly appearance of the panel and the panel > applets. It seems to me like they are using the dark sub-theme of > Adwaita, which may be o.k. for the GNOME Shell, but just doesn't look > right in the fallback mode. I think everyone upgrading from squeeze and > choosing GNOME classic would be in for a shock at its appearance. > > Wouldn't it be possible to force the panel an the applets to use the > light Adwaita appearance by default? Honestly, I have been trying to > figure out how to do that and was unable to get around it, so that's why > I though I could suggest this to you (Else, would anyone have a > suggestion how I can get that done myself locally?) > > Thanks, and keep up the good work! > > Johannes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
