On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:21:56PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > 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.
For what it's worth, I can't stand Gnome 3 either, however after trying out both XFCE and KDE, and finding that they both failed at one thing that I find essential[1], I sat down and spent a lot of time with Gnome 3's classic mode, and have been able to make it almost identical to my former Gnome 2 setup. I don't think there's anything I'm particularly missing - although I have found one major failing resulting from the silly Gnome tendency to remove configuration options: because I still have KDE packages installed on my laptop, some of these are still the default handlers for certain files, and thus when I try to mount a remote SMB share via Nautilus, it starts up the KDE file manager. There isn't any Gnome option to fix this ;) Cheers, Paul [1] switching from one screen on my laptop to a side-by-side dual screen setup and back again, when I plug in my external monitor. Neither XFCE nor KDE could position the lower panel correctly when the desktop changed, and I always ended up with it disappearing off the bottom of the screen, which was really irritating. Gnome handles this properly. -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
