On 07/29/2013 06:04 PM, walt wrote: > I'm going to test cinnamon next, and I'll post results in a day or > two.
Sad to report that gentoo's cinnamon-1.6.7-r2 is out of date :( Arch linux installs gnome-3.8 and cinnamon-1.8.8-2, which work fairly well together but not perfectly. The reason cinnamon-1.8.x doesn't meet my needs perfectly is that the developers of cinnamon panel applets are lagging a bit behind. That's just the nature of open-source <sigh>. Meanwhile the gnome devs, damn their eyes, continue to rip out stuff that I use and depend on every day! Gnome-3.8 just stepped over the line by removing gnome-panel completely, thereby removing the gnome-panel applets I depend on, without providing replacements for them. Grrrr! Gnome-3.8 and systemd have a lot in common, I think. There is nothing wrong with either one except that they are still works in progress, and I want my gnome2 back because it did everything I need to do, and gnome3 just continues to rip stuff out. (I'm sure it will be okay eventually.) Thanks for listening patiently to my complaints, and have a nice day ;)
