On 27.04.2012 21:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 14:45 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:58 +0000, James Allsopp wrote: >> >>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >>> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Yes, switch to Xfce4 or LXDE :p. > >> "At all costs"? Whether such possibility exists, the price will be very >> high ;-) > > Agree! > >> I would suggest against going that way. I'd better (in order of >> preference): >> >> 1/ Give gnome-shell a chance, it deserves it. > > Disagree > >> 2/ Use the fallback (now "classical") desktop. With higher doses of >> patience it can be very configurable and enjoyable but remember it won't >> last forever. > > I experienced it as resource hungry. > > Ralf > >> 3/ Keep Squeeze until it's unsupported. >> 4/ Choose another DE/WM. >> >> Greetings, >> > > > > I have now tried MATE and can confirm that it feels just like GNOME 2. Screenshot: http://marduk.touchlay.com/~mkaysi/screenshots/Workspace%202_013.jpeg (If you have IPv6, that link might not work for you so see it with direct IP, http://85.114.128.135/~mkaysi/screenshots/Workspace%202_013.jpeg ). -- Mika Suomalainen gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4DB53CFE82A46728 Key fingerprint = 24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728
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