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Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4



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On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??)
>
> Hum... it's not GNOME3 but gnome-shell what you don't like.
>
> And nope, as soon as I can customize some of the basics of the shell I'm
> fine. At the end of the day what I have used are programs (thunderbird,
> LibreOffice, Firefox...) not a desktop environment. And what's a desktop
> environment, by the way? "Something" that allows/facilitates you to run
> your preferred applications :-)
>
> I can get used to the "new desktop paradigm" (or whatever they prefer to
> name it), because regardless what GNOME developers and we -plain users-

I have several problems with gnome3 (or, then, gnome shell) . First,
the menu button for
"shutdown" has disappeared, how can i recover it? And more general,
how can I customize gnome 3. I found one "advances tweak" application,
but what one can do is very limited!

Kjetil



> say, we are still doing the same things in another way, I mean, there is
> nothing new nor revolutionary "per se" in the new shell.
>
> Don't be afraid: the jump is not that long as it first seems.
>
> Greetings,
>
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