Please stop complaining about Unity and install Gnome Shell

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/26/2011 03:46 PM, sktsee wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:32:45 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>> On 10/26/2011 03:21 PM, sktsee wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:29:23 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> +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.
>>>
>>> You guys just aren't exploring your options enough.
>>>
>>> http://tinypic.com/r/2qxbzao/5
>>>
>>> I got this desktop by installing/removing some packages from the Ubuntu
>>> repos, making some config changes with gnome-tweak and dconf-editor,
>>> and then adding few applets.  Save for the theme, it's pretty much how
>>> my 10.10 Gnome2 desktop looks layout-wise.
>>>
>>>
>> Looks pretty good, much better than anything I have been able to do with
>> Unity.  One thing I don't see that is important to the way I work is
>> workspaces that display the icons of the apps you have open in them and
>> can be switched to by clinking on them. Unless that is in the right hand
>> corner of the bottom panel and my eyes aren't good enough to make it
>> out.
>>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>
> Yes, its the same workspace switcher currently with 4 workspaces and
> number open apps on each of them.
>

OK, you have my attention and probable a lot of others that are 
uncomfortable with Unity right out of the box.  Is there a how-to 
somewhere that would give some guidance on accomplishing what you did?

Thanks,  Jim