Ubuntu Classic in Ubuntu12.04

[Steven Davies-Morris]

On 06/01/2012 07:55 AM, Ryan Gauger wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 09:42 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 1 June 2012 15:35, Ryan Gauger<rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Installing the package GNOME Shell
>>> (sudo apt-get install gnome-shell) will install both GNOME 3 Shell
>>> and GNOME
>>> 3 Classic, allowing you to choose between them (and of course, Unity
>>> also)
>>> at login. Thanks!
>> GNOME 3 in Fallback Mode - what the login screen calls "GNOME Classic"
>> - is not the same thing as GNOME 2, of course. It's less customisable
>> and it will disappear in future versions of GNOME 3.
>>
>>> In Christ,
>> Um. Would you mind dropping the religious propaganda, please? Some of
>> us find it unpleasant.
>>
> If you want the old GNOME 2 back, there is a desktop called Mate. It is
> being used by Linux Mint, but can be installed in Ubuntu. It is a GNOME
> 2 fork. It is very stable, and the Mate team releases their own
> upgrades/updates to Mate, but they will always keep it a fork of GNOME
> 2. It can be installed from the Mate repository, which I am sure you can
> find online. Sorry if this is not what you wanted.
>
> In Christ,
> Ryan

I'm using Mate. It's very stable.
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