Restoring the old gnome desktop

[Art Edwards]

On 04/28/2012 11:25 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 26 April 2012 18:25, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>> On 04/26/2012 12:26 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>
>> < snip >
>>
>>> You've clearly not tried Unity on a small monitor :)
>> That's my point entirely!  Unity does have a place on a small monitor but
>> it's not too good on a large monitor where there is plenty of desktop.  The
>> large icons look HUGE on a large monitor for one.  On a tablet I think Unity
>> would look and work fine.  All I am objecting to is forcing people to use it
>> (especially on large monitors).
> Unity works *extremely* well on a large monitor. I use it on a
> 3200*1200 desktop and it's lovely.
>
> I am not saying that you have to like it - you don't; your opinions
> are your own - but please don't fling around blanket statements along
> the lines of "it doesn't work" or "it's no good on a large monitor".
>
> It was not Ubuntu's choice to drop GNOME 2. GNOME 2 is dead and gone;
> the GNOME Foundation have moved on to GNOME 3, which is radically
> different and far less like classic GNOME than Unity is.
>
> With GNOME 2 dead and its replacement being controversial, Ubuntu went
> for something else. Don't blame them; they had to do something.
>
> I advise you to read up on Unity, install one of the wallpapers that
> reminds you what the keystrokes and techniques are, and give it a few
> weeks.
>
> If after that you are still unhappy, try Xubuntu or Lubuntu, or
> install GNOME 3 and pick "fallback mode" from the login screen.
>
I'm sure this is very honestly given advice that might be very helpful,
but isn't it a little ironic that, for such an intuitive environment,
Unity needs a wallpaper with hints?

I'm just sayin'

Art Edwards