On 7 November 2011 11:54, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE > 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. Have you tried the gnome-tweak-tools program? Usually there are more options under the hood that you can toggle with the gconf/dconf editor. Joshua -- Joshua Lock _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
