Hi, What frustrates you about Gnome Don? cheers Rob
On 02/04/16 03:30, Don Raikes wrote: > I have been frustrated with gnome-shell for a while now and want to go back > to mate. > I downloaded the ubuntu-mate-15.10 desktop iso and have tried installing it > in a vmware virtual machine, but once it is installed I can't get sound > working on it at all. > > I tried with a variety of configurations over the last couple of days but > nothing seems to work. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kendell clark [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 6:41 AM > To: Daniel Crone; [email protected] > Subject: Re: gnome shell versus mate > > hi > Being objective is a little difficult, since I've switched back to mate, but > i'll give it a shot. Hear goes. > Gnome is great if you don't want to have a customized panel with different > applets on it. The gnome panel is set and can't be changed easily. It > requires an extension or gsettings keys to do so. > > As a resultt, once you learn where everything is it won't ever change. > This is an advantage if you just want to run your apps and not have to go > looking for stuff on the panel. On the other hand, gnome has taken out a lot > of functionality that mate, being a fork of gnome 2 before all this stuff was > removed, has. In gnome, you can't select a different sound theme than the > default except by using gsettings. > > You can't create your own desktop icons, and removing a drive through the gui > is buried in nautilus. Whether you care about this stuff mostly depends on > what you do with your computer. Mate is much lighter on resources, which > won't matter unless you have a computer that gnome doesn't run well on. On > the other hand, mate's panels can be very odd with orca, sometimes getting > stuck and requiring a reset of orca or the panel to fix things. > > Mate is a lot more configurable, but has the disadvantage of not being able > to run apps as root accessibly. At least for now. This is being worked on > right now and should be fixed shortly. Mate has a nice menu system, with apps > organized into categories. Sound and video, office, etc. You can't search for > apps like you can in gnome, to find them you have to use the menus or add > them to the desktop. > > You can of course create keyboard shortcuts to launch them and so on. I can't > tell you which is better because each one is preferred by different people. > But mate tends to be better on computers that don't have a lot of power or > memory. Gnome has more desktop effects and can search, but has a lot of the > more advanced functionality removed. It's really up to you, in the end. > Thanks > Kendell Clark > > > Daniel Crone wrote: >> Hello. I am curious about the advantages of gnome shell over mate, or vice >> versa. >> What do you think? > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
