Allow me to join the choir :) I actually had high hopes for some of the stuff. Integrating IM account control in the top right menu is a great idea, and I like the way notifications are presented. But empathy is possibly even worse than Evolution, it won't connect to half of my accounts and "invisible" mode still shows me online to my contacts.
If I login to Gnome3 in dual-screen mode, it immediately bails out with "session gnome failed to start". If I start in single-screen mode and then use xrandr to enable the second screen, Gnome freezes to the point where only the mouse and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp still work. If I use the system-settings control panel, the displays flicker and then it resets to clone mode. Yay! But the worst part is that gnome-settings-daemon won't keep its grubby hands off my configuration. By default, even though I'm running Enlightenment, it reconfigured mouse speed and keyboard even though I've been fine with those settings for years. And now that I've touched the xrandr system settings, I can no longer start g-s-d while in Enlightenment because it f***s up my display settings... Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2011-11-11 23:51 +0100): > Hahaha :D > > GNOME 3 what an odd DE. > Missing features (weather, restart option etc.), Evolution doesn't > work, because it can't connect to the network, it tries to force us > to install pulseaudio, it completely breaks the workflow of sane > users. Empathy has a setting for that, maybe Evolution has too? $ gsettings set org.gnome.Evolution use-conn false > > Before I run the upgrade I saved a backup of my GNOME 2 Debian. Is > there the need to restore Debian from the backup, or is there a way > to get back a usable DE, by editing GNOME 3? Others have pointed out the fallback mode, but if I try that, X won't start at all (can't find session gnome-fallback). > > Could it be, that Evolution isn't working anymore, because I didn't > install pulseaudio, hence gnome-core couldn't be upgraded too? Could be. Then again, Evolution working properly could also be a sign of an impending apocalypse... > > I can't install pulseaudio, because this would break my DAW. Join the club :) You will get no sound in Gnome, but fear not, the most hideous beep at gdm3 login is back! > > How can I get back a theme, window buttons etc.? $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'greybird' You need to install xfwm or murrine-themes for that to work though. You can use gnome-tweak-tool to restore window controls, but I've not yet found the gsettings incantation for that. > > Even NumLock is disabled and the fonts are a PITA. $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'DejaVu Sans 10' Apparently you need to install numlockx to get your numlock powers back... > > By default it's the ugliest DE I've ever seen in my life. Not really, my gtk2 apps look even worse if I start them without starting g-s-d. Hope this helps (at the very least, venting always helps me ;) Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111112233042.6dd19...@neminis.intra.loos.site
