Two solutions really. If you are set on staying with Ubuntu, install Cinammon. I wouldn't for two reasons, one being the crazed desire to dictate what other people do with their desktops, the other being the crazed six month rlease cycle. But, if staying with Ubuntu, probably Cinammon.
I never have understood the cult of Ubuntu. I know lots of people who rave about it, but none of them are using it as their only or main workhorse. Its very striking - you hear someone telling you enthusiastically how wonderful Unity or Gnome 3 is, and it turns out he has played with it a few times and his main workstation is Windows 7. One hears similar enthusiasm about Windows 8 by people who never seem to have seriously tried using that, and only that, for a month. The second and robust long term solution is go to Debian. This is the best and the permanent solution, its completely stable and conservative in its release cycle and what you install is entirely up to you. Upgrades when they happen will be painless. At this point, install 'wheezy', the testing flavor. But even that is not going to be fully up to date - you'll get xfce 4.8, and for desktop thumbnails you need 4.10. For example. Properly tested two to three year release cycle. Complete developer agnosticism about which desktop is right for me. Its a hard combination to beat. Yes, the thing that is coming towards my guys is at some point gnome 3 is going to result from a distribution upgrade. Fine, but its a year or two away, and by then we will either go to xfce and they won't notice, or maybe Gnome will have recovered its senses. Seems as doubtful as Windows 8 recovering its senses. I guess that is the consolation with Linux, when you fire up that appalling mess on the Windows 8 desktop and realize that its the OS developer that is determined to do this to everyone and there is no other desktop available! At least with Linux this sort of insanity is confined to one desktop team, and you can just pick a different one from people who have both oars in the water. Peter Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > If you. like me, have a "thing" about Avant Window Navigator you may be > seriously fed-ip un upgrading to 12.10 to find that Mr Slugworth has > removed > the possibility of installing it, and, even more mephistophelian, made > sure > it gets removed on system upgrade. > > After a dark night of the soul, I found this: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/203362/how-can-i-install-avant-window-navigator-in-12-10/203575#203575 > > Richmond. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-On-upgrading-to-Ubuntu-12-10-tp4656552p4656567.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
