Author: john lewis Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:43:31 +0100
john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> So guess it will have to wait until gnome3 migrates into sid and then
> if I don't like it will have to try something else, perhaps xfce4 ;-)
For reasons I won't go into I needed to re-boot my main system so tried
out the openSuSE live cd and played briefly with gnome-3.
Briefly - because to be honest I really, really, really disliked the new
interface. It uses icons for starters which I've always disliked so
they would have to go.
But mainly because it is too big a change from what I'm used to, it
isn't an upgrade, it is a complete change.
I think it is possible to use the original interface but keep the rest
of the gnome-3 stuff but I didn't have the will to play around enough
to find out.
I'll wait til lots of people have used it, found out how to make it
work more like gnome-2 and then try it again.
The much vaunted message popup or whatever has no appeal at all since I
don't do messaging.
