Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

[Gernot Super <supergernot@yahoo.com>]

I have been quite satisfied with Gnome 2 in Squeeze, but as a testing 
user i tried the new shiny GNOME 3 for a month when it came out in 
unstable/experimental and was quite shocked of the non-usability, 
besides the fact i needed proprietary drivers to run it. Then i switched 
to XFCE 4.8 and got my usability back. Things worked like they used to, 
but i missed the good old Gnome 2 feeling. For me it was a more complete 
Desktop. Several months ago i gave MATE a chance and so far i like it 
more, although it's not in the official repos 
yet(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783).

If the project fails, i definitely switch back to the more complete XFCE 
4.10 or 4.12.(rendered desktop icons, thunar tabs, revised and updated 
mixer, config options etc.)


Am 15.11.2012 15:31, schrieb Roger Leigh:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 07:09:31AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Forget your issues with GNOME and switch to Xfce4.
> +99
> I can't recommend this highly enough.
>
> You're not alone in finding GNOME3 less than useful given that it's
> a complete trainwreck.  XFCE is, in practice, the current desktop of
> choice on Debian, even if it's not marked as such in the installer.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger