Hi John,
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 18:18 -0500, John Abreau wrote:
I just tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 on my Windows 7 laptop using WUBI,
and after googling for focus-follows-mouse, I found instructions that
suggested also uninstalling appmenu-*.
The focus mode is controlled by this gsetting:
At the moment, Gnome works for me with a few added extensions. As I
posted before, every new version of Gnome requires that I obtain these
extensions because the gnome API seems to change. In any case, I prefer
Gnome to Unity and KDE.
On 11/17/2012 08:42 AM, John Abreau wrote:
I'll have to try
On 11/16/2012 06:43 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 11/16/2012 6:18 PM, John Abreau wrote:
I just tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 on my Windows 7 laptop using WUBI,
and after googling for focus-follows-mouse, I found instructions that
suggested also uninstalling appmenu-*.
When I gave that a try,
I'll have to try it again. I had given up in frustration and switched to xfce
a while back, and stuck with xfce when I upgraded to 17.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 11/16/2012 06:43 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 11/16/2012 6:18 PM, John Abreau wrote:
I
I just tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 on my Windows 7 laptop using WUBI,
and after googling for focus-follows-mouse, I found instructions that
suggested also uninstalling appmenu-*.
When I gave that a try, after logging out and logging in again, it put the
menus back into the individual apps,
On 11/16/2012 6:18 PM, John Abreau wrote:
I just tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 on my Windows 7 laptop using WUBI,
and after googling for focus-follows-mouse, I found instructions that
suggested also uninstalling appmenu-*.
When I gave that a try, after logging out and logging in again, it
On 06/28/2012 03:31 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 06/28/2012 10:15 AM, Bill Cattey wrote:
I too have found Gnome 3 to be primarily a design based on some
simplification dogma uninformed
by usability experience or testing.
The most glaring example of this is how the panel was simplified away,
The fact that this type of failure is business as usual doesn't make it
any less of a failure. The business as usual aspect just makes it worse.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/28/2012 3:31 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The 3 major issues I see
When Gnome 3 came out, I was a bit disappointed, but I was able to
obtain some really cool extensions from Finnbarr Murphy. There
extensions allowed me to customize Gnome 3 to add things like a shutdown
command on the menu, and a few other nice things. Unfortunately the
Gnome developers have made
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bill Cattey w...@mit.edu wrote:
I tried to keep an open mind. I've used different desktop interfaces
for more than 20 years, and have discovered several that seemed
problematic initially, but showed value over time. The more I used
Gnome 3, the more I've
I suspect the people who developed Gnome3 didn't understand their audience.
I think they may have been trying to attract new, and less technical
users. By doing so the developers have alienated their existing user base.
The reality is that most users will not be technical enough to use Linux in
On 06/28/2012 07:40 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
In my own case, that means If I want to keep using these extensions, I
will either have to maintain them myself or maybe switch to KDE.
Yeah, I recently switched back to KDE after a long hiatus. I stopped
using KDE for a long time just because at
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:35:05AM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
Put man:pthread or man:signal or info:bash in the address bar.
Far and away the only tolerable way I've found to navigate info pages.
My personal favorite (suggested by someone else on this list a few
years ago, if memory serves)
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Chris O'Connell omegah...@gmail.com wrote:
The reality is that most users will not be technical enough to use Linux
This maybe true to some time ago. Seeing the advancements that Ubuntu has made,
I would gladly install it for a novice user .
However , Fedora's
John Abreau wrote:
Bill Cattey wrote:
The more I used Gnome 3, the more I've come to believe, They've
got it completely wrong and I need to get it off my computer.
Indeed. Gnome 3 has been a spectacular failure.
That's disappointing.
How about Cinnamon?
-Tom
--
Tom Metro
Venture Logic,
On 06/28/2012 10:15 AM, Bill Cattey wrote:
I too have found Gnome 3 to be primarily a design based on some
simplification dogma uninformed
by usability experience or testing.
The most glaring example of this is how the panel was simplified away, and
replaced by the horrendous behavior of,
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 15:31 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 06/28/2012 10:15 AM, Bill Cattey wrote:
I too have found Gnome 3 to be primarily a design based on some
simplification dogma uninformed
by usability experience or testing.
The most glaring example of this is how the panel was
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