On 11/14/2012 05:04 PM, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: > I have been looking forward to the update of > my favourite operating system Debian from > squeeze to wheezy. > > I thought it would be interesting to update > one of my machines ( an amd64 bit ASUS), > and I have just spent two days trying to use > the new desktop Gnome3. > > I have been SO disappointed that at this > moment I am re-installing squeeze.
It's possible that you may have jumped the gun a little on going back to Squeeze. It may be that you'll want to switch to a different desktop environment, like Xfce. It's very similar in many ways to older versions of Gnome. And there are even simpler DEs like LXDE. > I was sorry to see that the very useful > GNOME web-browser Epiphany has been replaced > by a very stupid and noisy game of that > same name. I had some difficulty getting > rid of it. Epiphany browser is still available in Wheezy, as the epiphany-browser package. > I have poor eye-sight, and make much use of > "CTRL shift +" to magnify that which I need > to see, and "CTRL -" to reverse. This was not possible in many GNOME3 > cases. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that feature of the old Gnome, and I don't know whether or not a similar feature exists in Xfce. > Please why can we not have a choice of the > new-fabgled desktop (for those who like it) > and the old, well tried Gnome desktop for > folks like me ? Well, there have been a lot of folks who feel that way. I understand that there's a branch of Gnome 2 still under development, but not by the Gnome project people. I don't recall the name of that alternative. Gnome had already got a bit gimmicky for me in later versions of 2.x, so I had already wandered off into Xfce-land by the time Gnome 3 came out. > I have been using the "old" version of the > Gnome desktop ever since they wrecked KDE3 > and introduced KDE4. > I think that the KDE exampled was abad one, > but has been repeated. Yes, there has been much discontent since the advent of both KDE4 and Gnome 3. I hope the Gnome project folks are making lots of omelets, 'cause they've certainly broken a lot of eggs. ;-) I hope you find something suitable to your needs. Best regards, the worrier -- 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/50a419f0.40...@comcast.net
