I have had no problems installing Gnu Radio under Kubuntu. If you already have a potent machine, try that. It gives the added bonus of being much prettier than Gnome ;)
Best Regards Paul M. Bendixen 2011/10/17 Ben Hilburn <b...@ettus.com> > N.B.: What follows is obviously all opinion: > > I can't stand Unity, and the default settings for Gnome 3 drove me nuts. > > If you are willing to put the effort in, you can install a bunch of > extensions that will make it at least approach the usability of Gnome 2. > > I recommend: > http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/gnome32.html > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/official-gnome-shell-extensions.html > > After installing, restart Gnome, and then use the 'Advanced Settings' menu > (which is actually a shortcut to the tool Bob mentioned, gnome-tweak-tool) > to enable the extensions you want. > > I was able to almost achieve what I had in Gnome 2 by doing this - although > there are still some annoyances. > > I really don't understand why Gnome3 took this giant step backwards, and > Canonical took Ubuntu even further backwards with Unity. > > Cheers, > Ben > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Vincenzo Pellegrini > <wwvi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Just a couple of lines to cast my ballot in favor of Bob's complaint. >> >> I had the same reaction in response to Fedora 15 reception of the Gnome3 >> thing. >> That stuff does move too far away from the power-user-desktop concept I've >> been enjoying for several years as a developer. >> >> Also I'm a bit frustrated to have to go after that load of "tweaks" in >> order to get a freshly installed system usable. >> >> my best regards to everybody there >> >> vince >> >> >> 2011/10/17 Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> >> >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Install gnome-tweak-tools to get advanced settings for gnome to be >>> able to >>> >> get your favorite settings after you install gnome-shell. >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com >>> > >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/10/03/install-gnome-shell-in-ubuntu-11-10/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Bob McGwier >>> >>> Facebook: N4HYBob >>> >>> ARS: N4HY >>> > >>> > Or do what I did: apt-get install gnome-session-fallback and switch to >>> Gnome >>> > Classic Mode at the login screen. Removes Unity. >>> > I haven't heard anyone say a good thing about Unity. It's an awful >>> > environment to develop under. The first thing I do in Ubuntu now is >>> stop >>> > using it. >>> > I'm now shopping around for another Linux distro if they keep going >>> this >>> > way. >>> > Tom >>> >>> On Ubuntu 11.04 I have installed Xfce desktop ( http://www.xfce.org/ ) >>> - it is available via the package manager (or by installing xubuntu >>> instead of regular ubuntu). It is similar to Gnome 2 and is very >>> lightweight. >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Vincenzo Pellegrini >> http://www.youtube.com/user/wwvince1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > -- * - - */* -/* * -/* - * */- * * */*/- */- * */* */- * * -/*/- */* - - *- */- - */- -/* -/* */* - * */* - * - * -/- * - */- - -/- -//
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