On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:46 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:57:13 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I neither like gnome-shell in its current state (I tested GNOME > >> 3.0 in openSUSE and did not feel good with it), but I hope it > >> changes a lot when wheezy comes out... and there is also the > >> fallback mode. > > > > The problem with "fallback mode" is that it it is inferior to > > GNOME2. > > Sure, but at least you don't have to deal with gnome-shell and still > run GNOME3. I also have tried openSUSE's GNOME 3. While pretty and not quite as horrible as the internet would have one believe, it wasn't my favorite experience. I would concur with the "my desktop is not a smartphone" point of view. > >> But true is that I'd like so much Debian still provides > >> GNOME2/metacity in wheezy as an alternative to GNOME3/gnome-shell. > > > > The problem with clinging to GNOME2 is that the GNOME project will > > no longer develop it, so unless someone forks the whole kit and > > caboodle, it will eventually die off. > > Yep, but GNOME2 is still supported upstream, at least for now, and I > will use it until it is finally dropped by the GNOME project. I don't > need additional features or enhancements just security fixes. > > And now you mention a fork, there are two projects focused on this: > mate and exde, IIRC. I doubt that these will get much steam, as there are always a lot more people to complain about software (such as myself :D) than actually write new stuff. > > > I am so happy with LXDE that I wish I had switched sooner, but until > > Fedora 15 came out I had been contented and familiar enough with > > GNOME2 not to make the effort to evaluate alternatives. > > > > All this is my personal experience, preference and opinion of > > course; it is for each to make his or her own choice. > > I'm a bit reluctant in changing to XFCE. I migrated from KDE4 to > GNOME2 and now I feel very comfortable in this environment. Being > like a "nomad" is fine for young people that want to taste new > experiences, I prefer a quiet home :-) +1 for LXDE. It's light, fast, and simple - it has made GNOME look sluggish and KDE like a old, lumbering giant. And it's devs don't seem to have any aspirations to reinvent the computing paradigm for now! -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110905162629.01742...@rbmj-laptop.mason.homeunix.org
