On 07/09/15 09:47, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > P.S. regards XFCE and others - interesting options, but the > distro I run (Scientific Linux) is tied to GNOME, and I do not > want to give up hundreds of useful packages and addons in an > attempt to escape Gnome 3 foolishness. When the providers of > those tools leave in disgust, so will I.
Using XFCE doesn't preclude the use of Gnome applications. I'm running XFCE on CentOS 6, but Gnome libraries are installed such that Gnome applications will typically run without issues. galens@lion:~$ gnome- gnome-about gnome-network-properties gnome-about-me gnome-open gnome-appearance-properties gnome-panel gnome-at-properties gnome-power-bugreport.sh gnome-at-visual gnome-power-manager gnome-audio-profiles-properties gnome-power-preferences gnome-character-map gnome-session gnome-control-center gnome-session-properties gnome-default-applications-properties gnome-session-save gnome-desktop-item-edit gnome-terminal gnome-display-properties gnome-thumbnail-font gnome-font-viewer gnome-typing-monitor gnome-help gnome-volume-control gnome-keybinding-properties gnome-volume-control-applet gnome-keyboard-properties gnome-wacom-properties gnome-keyring gnome-window-properties gnome-keyring-daemon gnome-wm gnome-mouse-properties YMMV, of course. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
