* On 2011 05 Nov 07:18 -0500, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:06:31 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > > So, why people is hungry with it ? > > (...) > > I think you wanted to say "angry", like the famous birds ;-) > > And yes, I feel more than angry when someone (or something) do not allow > me to follow my own way and make my own customizations or having my > desktop in the way I prefer.
In my case, I am running an ATI Radeon dual display card in this desktop and use its Zaphod Heads mode. GNOME 2 was incapable of dealing with it in a sane way, KDE4 less so, so I use XFCE which handles the mode and the resulting independent desktops flawlessly. On a whim I installed GNOME 3 (shell and fallback) recently and gave it a spin. Until I moved my xorg.conf out of the way both modes would fail upon startup. When I did get them running the only possible configuration for the second monitor is as an extended desktop. But there was no means that I could figure out to put a panel or do anything but simply drag an app to the second screen. When GNOME shell was running, it was not intuitive and was extremely slow, to the point that I thought it had locked up. Fallback mode is a shell of its former GNOME 2 self. Neither mode offered any sort of menu upon right-clicking the desktop or panel. What do they think we have reverted to, an Apple single button mouse? The loss of functionality/capability is insane. > But I'm also lazy and GNOME2 has been serving me very well in these > years, so I will give GNOME3+gnome-shell a chance before taking any > radical step (like switching to another DE or WM). I found XFCE to be able to handle my need for independent desktops a year ago. For a window manager it works well. As a desktop I have many GNOME/GTK+ and a couple Qt apps installed. I tend to pick and choose and not run all of one or the other. I will say that the GTK3 apps do look nice with the Adwaita theme in use. On my laptop running Wheezy I am still running GNOME2 desktop and will until it is forceably removed. At that time I'll probably go back to XFCE on it as well. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
