Please stop complaining about Unity and install Gnome Shell

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/26/2011 06:45 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Was that a picture of a gnome fallback installation?  Maybe I jumped to 
the wrong conclusion but I thought it was a tweaked and customized 
Unity.  I tried the gnome fallback mode and couldn't get it to work very 
well.  Even if that is the fallback mode it looks like sktsee was able 
to do more with it than I was.



Regards,  Jim