On 28 December 2011 17:55, Nenad <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not see where to choose Gnome Panel. Again, I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. If > I could remove Unity from my desktop and put Gnome panel instead fine with > me. But, because is far from obvious where&how to do it, you have my > comments.
You can install gnome-panel from either Software Center, Synaptic, or apt-get. Then on the login screen, click the gear button next to your name and choose GNOME Classic. You might be a bit disappointed as Ubuntu's nice indicator status menus weren't ported to gnome-panel for Ubuntu 11.10 but they will be available in 12.04. By the way, you need to hold down the Alt key (or if Compiz is running: Alt and the Windows key) to customize gnome-panel 3's applets. I don't recommend attempting to remove Unity. > I have impression that the Unity is mandatory, simply because I cannot find > a way to switch back to Gnome Panel. So, if Gnome Panel is available in > Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity is not mandatory, fine. And again, Unity was selected > as a default option - bad choice, the user should have easier way to switch > between Unity and Gnome Panel. In my limited experience, people new to Linux don't have a problem with Unity especially if someone shows them how to use it. In fact, I think it's a better experience for this user group than the classic GNOME desktop. For a variety of reasons, Ubuntu will not provide multiple desktops by default (basically for the same reasons Ubuntu doesn't provide multiple web browsers or photo editors). However, a variety of desktop interfaces and applications are available for easy install in the Software Center. Jeremy -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
