Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

2013-01-18 Thread F. Ozbek
On 01/16/2013 12:07 PM, John Abreau wrote: I just installed a bunch of options on my F17 desktop to try out. Mate looked promising; it would have been my preferred choice, except that it turns out focus-follows-mouse is broken. I have it set to sloppy, and it works fine in Gnome Shell,

[Discuss] [Position-available] Systems Engineer openings at SiteSpect, Inc. (FT Direct Hire - Boston, MA - Linux/DevOps/SaaS/PaaS)

2013-01-18 Thread Eric J. Hansen
Greetings all (again), We're hiring for several Systems Engineers (fulltime, direct hire) on our platform operations team in Boston. See below for details. Cheers, Eric CEO/CTO SiteSpect, Inc. http://www.sitespect.com

Re: [Discuss] XFCE

2013-01-18 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: I would point to XFCE as the modern desktop successor to such things... As someone, who I presume has spent time with GNOME 2 (and if not, perhaps someone else can address this), what bits of functionality do you expect a long term GNOME 2 user would miss after switching to

Re: [Discuss] MATE

2013-01-18 Thread Tom Metro
John Abreau wrote: Mate looked promising; it would have been my preferred choice... I've written about MATE here before, and briefly evaluated it. I don't quite get why someone would prefer it. Both MATE and Cinnamon have the same objective - provide a GNOME 2-like environment. The big

Re: [Discuss] XFCE

2013-01-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:53:50PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: I would point to XFCE as the modern desktop successor to such things... As someone, who I presume has spent time with GNOME 2 (and if not, perhaps someone else can address this), what bits of functionality do