Error with Unity and classic Gnome

[Carl Ansell]

On 04/09/11 08:20, Oddvar Kvernevik wrote:
> I report this as a bug because what happened was highly unexpected.
> I have Used Ubuntu with Classic Gnome desktop in all the years w Ubuntu.
>
> My computer has Pentium D processor, 80GB harddisk and
> Nvidia graphic card with 2GB Ram.
>
> This is what happened when I first time used the Ubuntu 11.04.
>
> First I burned the Ubuntu 11.04 CD.
> During boot I got message saying my Hardware is not good enough for Unity
> and Gnome Classic will be used.
> Thats all fine because I prefer Gnome Classic over Unity.
>
> The problem started when I wanted to use my Ubuntu as I am used to.
> First I waned to Add to Panel; Dictionary Lookup.
> That choice suddenly did not exist. After asking the Ubuntu Community 
> I got to know
> this option has been removed from Unity.
> But I did not use Unity, only classic Gnome desktop?
> After some investigation I found there were programs installed on my 
> system
> that refer to Unity.
>
> After removing those programs I am back to Gnome Classic
> and no more problems about Unity.
>
> I report this as a bug because this should not happen during install:
>
> First my 2-3 years old Pentium D computer is not too old to run Ubuntu 
> whether
> Unity or Classic. I personal prefer Classic but I never got the 
> opportunity to
> choose during install.
> After classic installed, it seemed there where still some annoying 
> traces from Unity
> like Dictionary Lookup is not on the list over applications "Add to Panel"
>
> Only after search and remove all programs in my system that seems to be
> related to Unity did my system function as a normal Ubuntu Gnome 
> classic desktop.
>
> This was highly annoying and  disturbing to me
> and it should indeed be reported as a bug.
>
> Regards from Oddvar Kvernevik
>
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I would recommend that you try one of the many GNOME 2 Ubuntu based 
distros out there such as Mint. It is clear that Ubuntu is moving away 
from GNOME 2 and Oneiric will not even provide the GNOME 2 desktop as an 
option, but there are many distributions that still use it as their main 
interface.
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