On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:20 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:34:14 -0800 > Scott Garman <[email protected]> dijo: > > >So I dunno if any of you care much for GNOME Shell, but I tried it for > >a couple of weeks and had to give it up (switched to XFCE). However, a > >co-worker of mine recently pointed me to a Linux Mint announcement > >that they will be addressing nearly all of my issues with GNOME Shell > >with some custom extensions. > > > >http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851 > > > >I'm really looking forward to trying this out when it is released! > > It was not clear to me from the article if the new shell options will > be available to all users of Gnome 3, or just users of Gnome 3 on Mint > 12. > > >From my reading of it, it seems like it is a feature of Linux Mint 12. One would hope they would open source these additions and make them available upstream (at least to Ubuntu, if not any GNOME using distro). It sounds like a good idea to me. I didn't see mention of it, but would hope there are also options to add back in some more control options, GNOME 3 control panel looks desolate compared to GNOME 2. I agree with the main point of simplifying things for new users, but at the expense of power users being able to tweak things (power users which still make up a large percentage of Linux users) I disagree with. A setting somewhere that says "I know what I'm doing, give me options dagnabbit" would have been welcome. My point of view comes from using mostly Fedora 15, and some Ubuntu 11.x and Linux Mint 11. ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
