Error with Unity and classic Gnome

Carl Ansell afccarl1994 at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 4 18:57:32 UTC 2011


As said below, you can install it but it isn't there by default and will 
not be receiving any 'canonical love' as it were. This is why I 
suggested Mint, it is based on Ubuntu but uses GNOME 2 by default.

On 04/09/11 19:47, Mohammad AbuShady wrote:
>
> it's just not in installed by default but you can still install it if 
> you want
>
> On Sep 4, 2011 10:38 PM, "?????? ?????????" <avtomaton at gmail.com 
> <mailto:avtomaton at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Now you mean that I can't use GNOME 2 as a desktop in Oneiric at 
> all? In
> > fact, ubuntu became OS with hardly integrated desktop. It's a great
> > pity, I think.
> >
> > 04.09.2011 22:25, Carl Ansell ?????:
> >> The next release (Oneiric) uses Unity 2D as a fallback option and
> >> Unity 3D by default. So in the current preview releases for Oneiric
> >> (which I am using) GNOME 2 is not installed, and Unity is based on
> >> GNOME 3 rather than GNOME 2.
> >>
> >> On 04/09/11 19:18, ?????? ????????? wrote:
> >>> It's clear that Ubuntu is moving away from GNOME 2? Why? This package
> >>> is still available even in new release, and it's a lot of people
> >>> using it. Now you mean that if unity is main desktop option, it is
> >>> one and only option?
> >>>
> >>> 04.09.2011 22:08, 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ? ?????????, ?????? ?????????
> >>> avtomaton at gmail.com <mailto:avtomaton at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > ? ?????????, ?????? ?????????
> > avtomaton at gmail.com <mailto:avtomaton at gmail.com>
> >
>
>

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