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Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

On 28/11/11 10:52, Richard wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:03:40 +0000
AG<computing.account@googlemail.com>  wrote:


On 27/11/11 11:04, Cam Hutchison wrote:

I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried
xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components.

I don't like any of it.

What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I
wanted it, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Is there any way to get this back, while still using Debian? I've been
using Debian (sid) a long time and I'm not changing distros.

Are the debian patches for the last of the GNOME 2 releases still
available? Can I build my own packages?




There seems to be a lot of this negative reaction to Gnome3 and this
leads me to not want to upgrade my Debian stable (squeeze) at all.  This
is the same trip that the KDE developers went down as well, which
spawned an official fork which retained the original KDE3.*

One can but hope that the GNOME developers will listen to their user
base and offer an alternative or some kind developer will start a forked
version of Gnome2 to retain the version that those who are reacting
negatively to Gnome3 have come to know, love and trust.

Either that, or users will engage in a mass exodus to LXDE or Xfce4
which would be a real shame.

AG



Hi
I was unhappy with Gnome 3 at start, but after giving it a chance I've grown to like it.
for instance, ALT Tab to move between desktop is a nice feature, its less hand movement than grabbing
the mouse to click on a window.
I can use Alt+Tab to scroll through application windows using Gnome2 already. In fact, one can set up a range of these kinds of options by modifying the keyboard shortcuts under System> Preferences 


And its not a two handed operation as you scroll thru all the open
windows, by just clicking tab while the ALT key is down.
Great for me as although I'm RH I use a LH mouse.
Once the menu editing is sorted it will be a lot better than gnome2.

Thats my opinion now.
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