On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Another Sillyname < [email protected]> wrote:
> I've just installed Gnome Shell as part of a F15 build, it's the first > time I've played with it and have pretty much ignored the build up as > I prefer to judge these things myself. > > While I'm not totally comfortable yet with the changes I'm willing to > use it for a couple of weeks before making decisions as to whether > I'll stick with it or not. I've been using F14 with a Compiz desktop > for 2-3 years now. > > I've read assorted arguments in assorted threads regarding human > multitasking capabilities and frankly don't want to get into those > arguments. > > What I don't understand however is the removal of critical/semi > critical indicators from the system without any replacement extensions > being available and if I've read some mailing list threads correctly > no intention to provide replacements. > Specifically the removal of the hardware monitoring and CPU, Network > etc.... monitoring applets I just do not understand the reasoning > behind. There is a quantum difference between multi tasking and > process/activity monitoring. I've many times been working on one of > my machines when a panel indicator has drawn my attention to something > that needed further investigation, sometimes without merit, on a > couple of occasions it's possibly saved machines. > > There's plenty of space on the top bar to allow them, so what's the logic? > There's the system-monitor extension: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/tree/extensions/systemMonitor In F15, I believe you can install it with the 'gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor' package, but I'm not sure. There's a message somewhere on DDL explaining why we didn't add it by default, but I can't find it right now. Sorry. > Also is there a way to change to format of the date/time on the top > bar? I prefer to use a 12 hour clock with an am/pm suffix and no > leading zeros. > In the Calendar drop-down, there's "Date and Time Settings". In this, there should be a switch for "12-Hour Clock". > Thanks and I will state I've been impressed with the stability, more > eye candy would be nice though. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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