Anyone interested in a "GNOME 2 look and feel" remix?

[paul_carlson]

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 09:34 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 10/29/2013 04:06 AM, Tom H wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 28 October 2013 11:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > GNOME seems to have an obsession with simplification to reduce code
> > complexity and to make the interface as uncustomizable as possible.
> > The latter's driven by a strong interest in their "brand" as if GNOME
> > is a commercial product like Coke or Pepsi. I don't see how giving
> > users a GUI option to disable bluetooth or accessibiility icons or
> > move the clock is a big assault on the GNOME brand but they clearly
> > do. There was a bug filed by a GNOME developer against an app where
> > the GNOME developer was asking that app developer to disbale some
> > functionality because it didn't fit in with the GNOME look. I've
> > forgotten what the actual bug was but I think that had to do with
> > indicators and the GNOME developer actually said at one point (more or
> > less) "you have to choose whether you want to be a GNOME app or a
> > Unity/KDE/... app"!
> >
> 
> I just got started with 13.10 and this is certainly the case with 
> Nautilus.  To me removing the ability to have two panes removes the 1st 
> or 2d biggest reason to use a file manager in the first place.  I've 
> always looked for one with that ability starting in DOS to Amiga to OS/2 
> right up to Ubuntu. I've started to look for one to replace Nautilus now.
> 
You can now install Nemo, the Cinnamon file manager, without installing
all of Cinnamon too.  It has a few dependencies, mainly its own version
of file-roller and a data-thingy for icons and stuff, I guess.

Nemo is pretty much Nautilus before it was vandalized with a few nice
enhancements.  It works well for us here.

-- 
paul