Support for "GNOME Classic (No effects)"

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Yes, I wait and if >=3.8 has 2D support (>=Gubuntu 13.10), many can use
it, otherwise they would have to try other desktops (I probably am going
to try Xubuntu, Xfce first). It's not so much the interface, it's the 3D
that's too much for my(our) notebook(s). So replacing the 2D interface
in GNOME 3.8 by extensions and having 3D acceleration is unfortunately
not a solution: Notebooks consume more power then and on the persons I
know, the fan is always _very_ loud then, mine too, but I'm kind of
repeating myself.
Still, thank you for your work.

On 03/15/2013 09:14 PM, Lance wrote:
> Well, GNOME itself is dropping the "GNOME Classic (no effects)" session in favor of a new 'mutter' based classic session which I find quite impressive. In fact Jeremy Bicha already renamed the sessions in 13.04 to take this into account. But 13.04 will still ship GNOME version 3.6 so the "legacy classic session" will work in 13.04 if you install the proper packages.
>
> There are however some conflicts ATM if you use the GNOME 3 PPA to get version 3.8 and I've simply had no time to even look into that. It would be somewhat foolish to do so right now since Canonical is talking about changing the support period for interim releases between the LTS releases.
>
> My personal advice is to stick with Ubuntu 12.04 which can easily be tweaked to use the session you want, and 12.04.2 even shipped with the Quantal kernel and an updated X-stack so you should easily be able to rely on Precise until we get things sorted out :^)
>
> Lance
>  
> --- On Fri, 3/15/13, . <dcMhOYBdpZkH at web.de> wrote:
>
>> From: . <dcMhOYBdpZkH at web.de>
>> Subject: Re: Support for "GNOME Classic (No effects)"
>> To: "Lance" <lbsolost at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Friday, March 15, 2013, 2:34 PM
>> Regarding the 2D support removal for
>> 3.8 and later: I like the 'GNOME
>> Classic (No effects)' mode as it is, so maybe a 'simple'
>> (=adding always
>> this same mode) patch for 3.8 and later would be enough and
>> not much
>> work. Oh, and even better: GNOME Team, do not remove this
>> mode ;) *3D
>> doesn't belong on desktop, to much power use, too loudly
>> fans*
>> Thanks, clear so far.
>>
>> On 03/15/2013 07:51 PM, Lance wrote:
>>> The short and simple answer is yes as I explained in
>> this forum post:
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113450
>>>
>>> I do however anticipate some problems in the immediate
>> future transitioning to GNOME 3.8, but I'm certain we'll
>> have those sorted out by 14.04 (probably much sooner).
>>> I have to use 'metacity' and 'gnome'panel' with a large
>> number of old boxes that have VIA P4M800 graphics which is
>> why I wrote some notes regarding Ubuntu 12.04 in this forum
>> post:
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370
>>>
>>> Feel free to PM me, preferably using the forums, but
>> don't expect a quick answer because I'm bogged down with
>> many issues ATM.
>>> Lance
>>>
>>> PS: Since I'm using "plain text" you'll have to
>> copy-n-paste those links into your browsers address bar.
>>> --- On Fri, 3/15/13, . <dcMhOYBdpZkH at web.de>
>> wrote:
>>>> From: . <dcMhOYBdpZkH at web.de>
>>>> Subject: Support for "GNOME Classic (No effects)"
>>>> To: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>> Date: Friday, March 15, 2013, 1:41 AM
>>>> Will there be support for "GNOME
>>>> Classic (No effects)" ?
>>>> Since 3D based acceleration turns the fan on my
>> notebook on
>>>> and it's
>>>> annoyingly loud. I guess I'm not the only one...
>>>> If 2D support is removed I will be forced to stop
>> using
>>>> GNOME 3, and
>>>> maybe try MATE or Xfce, otherwise I'm pretty happy
>> with the
>>>> also so
>>>> called "fall-back" (2D) mode.
>>>>
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