Please stop complaining about Unity and install Gnome Shell

[Liam Proven]

On 26 October 2011 23:17, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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?

I believe I've already posted this 2 or 3 times, at least, but:

http://blog.poggs.com/2011/10/ubuntu-11-10-for-productive-people/

However, note, this is configuring GNOME 3's Fallback Mode and the
expectation is that this will be removed from GNOME 3 before very
long. It is a /lot/ less customisable than GNOME 2 was, anyway.

Honestly, I think you're better off with Xubuntu and Xfce.


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