On 01/10/2012 21:36, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
Frankly that is alarming, but also as I suspected, and precisely why I
have not upgraded.
Have you any idea
Hi Gordon,
On 02/10/12 11:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
On 01/10/2012 21:36, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
Frankly that is alarming, but also as I suspected, and
Gordon,
Popey probably won't thank me, but the answer may be gnome-session-fallback
atop any Ubuntu/Unity, which will give you a Gnome-2-like desktop with all
the other benefits of the 12.x releases (of which there are many.
I've already gone to 12.10 on my two main machines - okay, the Beta is
On Tuesday 02 October 2012 10:42:19 Gordon Scott wrote:
On 01/10/2012 21:36, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
Frankly that is alarming, but also as I
On 02/10/12 16:06, Alan Pope wrote:
On 02/10/12 11:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
At this moment, Unity feels a little like Ubuntu
threw a grenade into the mix. Yes, I know it's been around a year or
so, but I ditched it back then as too profound a change. I'm trying to
prepare for what seems
On 02/10/12 23:18, Gordon Scott wrote:
On 02/10/12 16:06, Alan Pope wrote:
On 02/10/12 11:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
At this moment, Unity feels a little like Ubuntu
threw a grenade into the mix. Yes, I know it's been around a year or
so, but I ditched it back then as too profound a change.
On 28 September 2012 10:42, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
Putting my present frustration with Unity into context, I'm a person who
on first setting up any OS immediately turns off all the distractions
from and obstructions to efficiency, like slide-out menus (I don't want
to wait
On 28 September 2012 10:42, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
I want a quiet, quick machine that does what I ask with question, tantrums
or flourishes. My computers are tools, not special effects
playgrounds.
I fully agree with those comments. I have very simple needs and Debian
has
On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 15:37 +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
On 28 September 2012 10:42, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
does
what I ask with question, tantrums or flourishes.
That should, of course, have read 'without' as you realised.
Me too - for me the only worthwhile eye-candy
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
If it does, is it reasonably easy to get back to the previous
desktop?
GNOME 2 is dead. If you want to get something looking like your old
desktop
GNOME 2 is dead.
...And looking remarkably sprightly on my Fedora 16 laptop...
Vic.
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On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like Graphics, Programming and so on.
1)Dash
2) click on Apps (lens??) [the icon at the bottom of
Hi Alan,
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 09:40 +0100, alan c wrote:
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like Graphics, Programming and so
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