Please stop complaining about Unity and install Gnome Shell

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/26/2011 11:57 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:41:09 -0600
> Wes James wrote:
>
>> I tried that and in the menus, the text has white squares in random
>> letter positions.  Some letters show, others have a white box.
>>
>> I logged back out and tried kde plasma and that looks fine.  Any ideas
>> about Gnome?
>
> Xubuntu works fine too. Unless you specifically want Gnome3 I'd go for
> Xubuntu. It's quite like what Ubuntu used to be.
>
> - Richard.

+1 for Xubuntu.  I've been running it in VBox for a couple of days and 
so far it seems to be the closest thing to Gnome2 in 10.04 I've found. A 
first the xfce desktop seems a little stark but I've made some changes 
and am feeling more comfortable with it all the time.

A couple of differences you will notice right away.  There is no 
Applications - Places - System menus in the top left corner and some of 
the functions you would expect to see on the top panel are on the bottom 
one and the reverse is also true.  I don't know if this can be changed 
but even if it can't the amount of adjustment going from gnome2 to xfce 
is less than going from gnome2 to unity.

Regards,  Jim