On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 21/02/13 05:55, Bret Busby wrote:[...] I converted to Debian at Debian 3, and I think that it was then that I started using GNOME, which I have used since converting to Debian Linux, as GNOME has (from memory) been the default window manager for Debian Linux.Are you aware of the GNOME 3 controversy? It changed beyond recognition, not only visually, but many of the subsystems that power it. XFCE perhaps resembles more closely what you thought of as GNOME, as it is still based on GTK+ 2. There are other forks of GNOME 2 being produced by people who miss it, and recently GNOME developers have become more open to the idea. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
My installed gedit, shows as 2.30.4, so I assume that my installed gnome is 2.x .
In Synaptic, gnome shows as being version number 1:2.30+7 and gnome-about shows as being 2.30.2-2, so I assume that my installed gnome (that sounds funny - "my installed gnome" - little bearded man wandering about in my computer), is 2.30.x .
What you have said about gnome 3, reminds me of a controversy regarding apache 2, when it first came out, with published warnings to avoid it at all costs.
Maybe, then, if this is correct, I should change to XFCE, when GNOME 2 is no longer available/supported as a default desktop.
-- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................