On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: > > So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, > > are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be good for me. > > GNOME2 will be gone, GNOME3 will be present, and the fallback mode has > been renamed "GNOME classic" and is available as a desktop session (that > is, you can select it from the login prompt). So, if you can customize > the fallback/classic mode to your tastes, which may involve writing or > using extensions, great. If not, you could consider one of the other > desktop environments in Debian, or you could use the 3rd party "MATE" > packages which are a fork of the GNOME2 codebase. There's some chance > that MATE will be officially packaged in Debian for the release after > next, but not for wheezy. Finally, there's another effort called > "Cinnamon" which tries to give a GNOME2-like experience on top of > GNOME3 technology, again that is not packaged officially for the next > release of Debian, but is available third party, and might be in the > release after next. > Cinnamon is actually in Sid right now. I haven't tried it, so I don't know how well it works.
I use Fluxbox, and I like it a lot. Honestly, I don't know why so many people feel like they need to use a full desktop environment. To go to a straight window manager, I had a very short learning curve. Basically all I had to do was learn how to access the menu, and learn how to start applications automatically on login (nm-applet, for example). -Rob -- 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/20121214133024.ga9...@aurora.owens.net
