On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 21:21:56 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Can anyone recommend an alternative? Something simple and minimal
without too much ugly. Sorry I can't stand tiling WMs either.
Before Gnome 3 came along I didn't like LXDE but I've started to use
it. I find that the Avant or Cairo
On 13/11/2011, at 17:59, Simon Rumble wrote:
The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in
Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the
default.
I work in tech support, doing a lot of phone support for non-technical users.
Let me tell you,
On Nov 13, 2011 11:52 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote:
On 13/11/2011, at 17:59, Simon Rumble wrote:
The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in
Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the
default.
I work in tech support,
I upgraded 3 days ago and downgraded yesterday as well...
it loses the perennial wisdom of keep simple things simple and make
complex things possible...
simple things are no longer simple... i know this is just a rant, but gnome
is not a primary focus for me, more a utility to efficiently using
On 14/11/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in
Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the
default.
I work in tech support, doing a lot of phone support for non-technical users.
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 21:21 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I just upgraded my debian testing laptop and found myself running
Gnome3. I was quite happy with Gnome2 (with a few minor tweaks)
but Gnome3 is completely abysmal.
What I find annoying about these conversations is that
Andrew wrote:
What I find annoying about these conversations is that if you had gone
and bought an Apple with Mac OS X you would be perfectly reasonably
working through learning how to use a new Desktop and not complaining
about it at all.
But here we are admonishing the GNOME hackers had
On 11/14/2011 04:30 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
Andrew wrote:
What I find annoying about these conversations is that if you had gone
and bought an Apple with Mac OS X you would be perfectly reasonably
working through learning how to use a new Desktop and not complaining
about it at all.
But here we
