[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[Rich Faulkner]

Classic gnome and compiz is what I want and what works for me in this
application.  I do coding, website development and graphics on my home
system.  Reinventing the wheel is not what I want as a user and member
of this community; it's usability and ease of getting what I want from
an OS that I can configure to do what I want.  To that end the
"classics" worked just fine for me.  But that's just me....RinL



On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:34 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> There is a "classic gnome with compiz" option for desktop in the gdm
> login for Fedora15.
> 
> From what I've been reading, Unity has done similar
> looks-good/works-bad stuff. 
> 
> Ugh. This is worse than the "ribbons" in the latest M$ Office. At
> least that didn't break stuff. It was just a UI change with no
> benefit.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
> wrote:
>         Thank you Jim for the review.  I've been working-up a new
>         system for my
>         desktop and have been listening for reviews of Gnome3.  The
>         more I see
>         of what's going on with Unity and Gnome3 the more I think I'll
>         stick
>         with Gnome2 (my preference).
>         
>         RinL
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:52 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46 AM, James Sumners
>         > <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Jim Kinney
>         >         <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         > If you had, you would have very clearly understood
>         the
>         >         reference to the Mac
>         >         > interface and forced usage of the interface.
>         >
>         >
>         >         When you say "told what I can do with my desktop"
>         that
>         >         implies, to me,
>         >         that the system is preventing actual usage. Being
>         able to
>         >         change the
>         >         way the interface looks (removing panels, adding new
>         panels,
>         >         etc.) is
>         >         different. OS X has not prevented me from doing
>         anything that
>         >         I want
>         >         to do on my desktop, and Gnome 3 wouldn't either. I
>         assume
>         >         Gnome 3
>         >         makes it difficult to do things, and is the reason I
>         don't
>         >         ever see
>         >         myself using it. OS X's interface is minimal, but it
>         doesn't
>         >         make
>         >         actually using the system a difficulty. So I still
>         don't think
>         >         the
>         >         reference makes sense.
>         >
>         > Ah well. It does to me. Sorry I don't have the time to
>         explain better
>         > why I see it that way.
>         >
>         >
>         >         --
>         >
>         >         James Sumners
>         >         http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>         >
>         >         "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power
>         attracts
>         >         pathological personalities. It is not that power
>         corrupts but
>         >         that it
>         >         is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a
>         tendency to
>         >         become
>         >         drunk on violence, a condition to which they are
>         quickly
>         >         addicted."
>         >
>         >         Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
>         >         CH:D 59
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>         > --
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>         > James P. Kinney III
>         >
>         > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
>         diverted to
>         > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful
>         can do as
>         > they please, and those who survive will be left to
>         contemplate the
>         > outcome.
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> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> 
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
> outcome.
> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
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