Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4
On 12/11/11 18:22, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> see inline below.
>>
>> 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?
>
> Hold down the "Alt" key.
>
>> And more general, how can I customize gnome 3. I found one "advances
>> tweak" application, but what one can do is very limited!
>
> Debianites, gnome-shell 3.0 is not very user customizable (it is, but is
> costly), we have to wait for the 3.2 or higher to be able to select
> between themes and more options. Take gnome-shell 3.0 as a transient step
> to another version and expect more changes for the new upcoming releases.
>
> Greetings,
>
FRom what I read, just consider gnome 3.0 as a pre-alpha...
Then maybe open bug reports to debian asking for gnome2 until gnome3 is
ready...
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