With Gnome 2, my favorites bar is the panel at the top of the display. I drag
my firefox link, my email link, etc. That panel is narrow, does not consume
much space on the display, and I dont need the constant size changes of the
form as I move the mouse around.
G2 was a good thing, and is a better thing than unity or g3.x
Please tell me how I can past several folder views that I chose as icons on the
favorites bar. With that facility, I may eat my words.
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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.
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> From: Peter <[email protected]>
>To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:19 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] Back to Gnome 2
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>fiw, that´s how it works in Unity... Love Unity now... (12.04+)
>tap super, and type in the the command, with auto-complete. Alt-F to get the
>menu... less mousing around. With the new key bindings it is actually quite
>slick.
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>On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Aaron Doucette <[email protected]> wrote:
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>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>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]
>>>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 .
>>>>>
>>>>>
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