Re: Debian desktop news
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Guy Gold wrote:
> GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made
> some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to
> GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME
> 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much
> about that.
>
I've heard this said by other prior too. Gnome-Shell works fine on an
older circa 2005 IBM X41 laptop. I've been running it since it came to
SID. The main criteria in my experience is having enough RAM. I have 1.5
Gb and Gnome-Shell runs in about a 300 Mb of ram, and that's with a
handful of Gnome-Shell-Extensions to boot. It runs faster and much
smoother than Gnome 2 ever did on this laptop!
So please lets stop the misinformation. Anything using the GTK2 toolkit
is a step backward simply because of the outstanding bugs that will
never be fixed. GTK3 and Gnome-Shell are an improvement in terms of
speed. If one wants the older look of the GTK2 Gnome interface, it can
be had, using Cinnamon. MATE isn't going anywhere in the future because
it relies on buggy GTK2.
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