Super-key, start typing the app name, hit enter. No mouse required.
But when I want to start a program that is not in the favorite bar, I have to click on Application, then on the filter (example Program), and then from the displayed icons, chose my program. > > > With G2, I click on menu, which opens in a flash, slide down to the > program menu-item, across to the entry and click. These actities take much > much less time than vanilla Gnome 3 > > I installed the tweaks for G3, and was able to have some shortcuts on the > favorites bar. Still, when you move around the system a lot, G3 and also > Unity are the pits. > > I used xfce, but then had to switch back to G3 to get certain updates > installed, and back again. > > My concern is more with UEFI which is coming soon. I bet you that UEFI > will be hacked before Microsoft gets the W8 software out to the public. > And perhaps that hack will help Linux users too. > > If the certificate authorities can be hacked, then nothing is safe. And > that is where I see the hackers concentrating their efforts. > > > > *------------------ > > * > Regards > * > Leslie > * > *Mr. Leslie Satenstein > *50 years in Information Technology and going strong. > Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, > and tomorrow will be even better. > > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> > alternative: [email protected] > www.itbms.biz > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Aaron Doucette <[email protected]> > *To:* Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:28 PM > *Subject:* Re: [MLUG] Back to Gnome 2 > > XFCE is nice and similar to Gnome 2.x in both looks and performance. > > Speed is relative to the machine. I have no issues with the Gnome3 > interface on my machine, aside from a few functionality annoyances. > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 13:19 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > For years my favorite distribution was Fedora, seconded by Ubuntu. > > > > Now, I got fed up with the favorites bar, got fed up with Cinamon and > > Linux Mint 13 (mind you it was better human interface than the two) > > and went back to Debian with the laptop option. > > > > I guess since we spend so much time with the latest Gnome or Unity > > release, that we fail to realize how bad they are. Debian gui > > interface flies. Click, and the display is immediately updated. > > Try that with the three I mentioned. > > > > Boot times also seems more quick. > > The only issue i see and trust me it is on the horizon. is what happens > when wheezy comes out aka the next debian stable and your forced onto > gnome3 anyways. > > I too run debian and am using gnome2 but i will not fight the change > that is coming. The only thing left is someone continues patching gnome > 2.3x and adding features but it seems so far that nobody is up to the > task. > > The distro's themselves just repackage the upstream product and so that > means no more gnome2 since upstream has next to dropped it. > > I remember when gnome first came out and everyone including me hated it > and preferred kde . > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > >
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