Cinnamon is very great. Also nemo, the nautilus fork of 3.4, because nautilus 3.6 is a very big regression in manys opinion (mine too).
Ive had soo many problem with gnome 3 (mainly performance), so i switchesd to lxde. It felt like replacing an intel pentium 4 with a core i7.... now i am using lxde within my gentoo, and cinnamon on my secondary screen (linux mint). I love cinnamon. But it is unusable in my opinion, because it is on top of gnome3. they should make this working standalone! :)) On 10/15/2012 01:26 AM, walt wrote: > I'm back in gnome heaven again, thanks to cinnamon-1.6.1 :) > > First I'd like to thank Canek for his generous help to all of us > here who have been struggling with gnome-shell. I'm sure I'll > try gnome-shell again when it's more mature, but for now I'm > sticking with cinnamon. It's a giant step backward and I love it :) > > The newly ported system-monitor panel applet for cinnamon is what > convinced me to switch -- it now looks and behaves exactly like the > old gnome2 version. > > There are a couple of things you should know if you've never tried > cinnamon before. (These may already be documented in the gentoo > wiki but I haven't looked, which is why I had to figure them out > for myself :) > > Once you have cinnamon emerged, how do you actually start it? Just > put this line in your .xinitrc: > exec ck-launch-session gnome-session --session=cinnamon > > BTW I tried deleting the ck-launch-session. That broke auto-mounting > of removable media like usb sticks, so I put it back. I'm sure this > will change rapidly when systemd becomes the default, but systemd is > not mature enough yet for my taste so I'm sticking with openrc for now. > > Second, and very important for the system-monitor panel applet, is > that networkmanager must be running for the network activity to be > visible in the applet. That took me a few days to work out :p > > Another big change in the panel applet is that you must turn on the > "Panel edit mode" before you can add any other applets to it. That's > done by right-clicking on the panel. Then turn edit mode off again > before the panel will work as expected. That's very confusing if > you have to find it by trial-and-error ;) > > I'd be interested to hear other opinions about cinnamon. > > > > >
