On 08/30/2011 01:24 PM, Nick Glynn wrote:
Hey Ben,
Gnome 2 hasn't gone anywhere. It's not been taken away. It's just not under
active development by the Gnome Foundation any more though I believe some
people are
working on a fork at http://matsusoft.com.ar/redmine/projects/mate if that's of
interest.
I doubt any future Fedora releases will sate your requests as they tend to
track upstream Gnome but, as that's a distribution choice, you may be better off
emailing the Fedora Desktop List at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
Yes, I saw that mate thing..looks promising, but long term, unless it
gets into a distribution, it's probably not going to stay very active.
We ship a fair amount of linux machines to our customers, and I would
much rather keep to standard distro packages if possible. For now, that
means staying with F14, but eventually we'll have to move forward, or
perhaps to a new distribution.
The fedora forums pretty much say to complain to gnome, since fedora is
going to follow upstream gnome, or at least that is the current plan.
I don't really want to argue with anyone about how they should run their
project..I'm obviously free to go use xfce, kde, or whatever.
But, I did want to give my feedback to the project developers just
in case it helps them realize that perhaps their new features are not
as well received as they thought they would be.
Thanks,
Ben
Hope that helps,
Nick
On 30 August 2011 19:45, Ben Greear <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3,
so I'm posting here.
I really just want gnome-2 back. Fallback mode sort of works, but its
still not as good as gnome 2 was. I do work on my computer, not just
open one or two windows and browse the web. I want one-click to open
new Terminals. I want to drag the Terminal icon into the top task bar
to accomplish that. Right-click should work without having to press
Alt. I want the bottom task dock or whatever it's called so I can easily
select
from the multitude of windows I have on my desktop.
Please have a one-click (or very few clicks) option to get the old
gnome-2 interface back. If you want to have a new way of doing things,
that's fine too, but please don't break the old ways of doing things
so badly.
I'm downgrading to Fedora 14 for now..hope things clear up by
F16 or F17.
Thanks,
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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