Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-06 Thread Derek Atkins
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > >> It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) > > The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I > prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically > separate my work

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Freeman
On 1/5/12, Bill Sconce wrote: > Only thing is I can't figure out how to present both local and UTC... :) > > > 29_desktops_here'ly yrs, > > -Bill Use python. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Linstid
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change > the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say > "use the format described in strftime()". Wow, that's minimal, and > that's awesome too. > > You c

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Sconce
On 05 Jan 2012 13:53:04 -0500 kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote: > I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change > the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say > "use the format described in strftime()". Wow, that's minimal, and > that'

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically separate my work onto these desktops, and I navigate between these with my key

GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > > > > My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. > > > > Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. > > I couldn't figure out Gnome3 when I upgraded to Fedora 16. It just > threw me for a loop. I tried out LXDE and then