Le 2012-02-04 15:40, andre999 a écrit :
I use gnome2 as well (in preference to kde for the same reasons), but I modify
it to have only 1 panel on top. (To give me more screen space.)
I put all the static icons under one drawer ("tiroir") icon, and group all
instances of the same application together. Which works nicely.
Under gnome3 there is at least one project (I forget the name) that seems to
provide the panels and menus removed by gnome3. Hopefully that will work.
Otherwise I'll be looking for another desktop myself.
For me space is not an issue with my 24 inch monitor. I am actually looking at
a bigger one, being spoiled at work with two monitors, one of them being 30
inches.
I had made the mistake of not blocking gnome 3 stuff and accidentally had it installed on my old gentoo. I spent several days trying to recover from the damage and found it so much a pain that I decided to recreate the whole OS on another partition. Since
I had a 480G free partition and a 100MB free partition , that was not a big deal.
In gnome 2, I have a bar on top and one on the bottom. On top I have pull down menus and icons and on the bottom the information on which app is open. Gnome 3 removed all that stuff and makes the desktop completely useless. I had fits when I saw the damage
and I couldn't wait to swap it with kde. Luckily I had it installed. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to do the switch. I couldn't stand how slow kde was so I switched to Mageia which had gnome 2 as a desktop.
I had fits when I saw that Mageia is getting ready to replace gnome 2 with
gnome 3. This why I went back to gentoo. There is no way in hell that I will
accept gnome 3 in its current form on my PC.
I had a strange issue in kde, when I clicked to open a terminal I woud get the
equivalent of the microsoft hour glass for what seems to be quite a while. In
gnome 2 the opening of the terminal is almost instant. I have the same problem
in Fedora 15 and gentoo.
I am curious to know, is it the same on mageia? I haven't installed kde on
Mageia so I have no way of knowing.
Michel
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