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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:57 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not |
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>> pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early |
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>> gnome2 over 1.4 was :( |
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> I find gnome3 to be not very different from gnome2 *if* I run it in |
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> "fallback mode". Try it: System Settings::System Info::Graphics:: |
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> Forced Fallback Mode::On |
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> So far I find gnome-shell to be pointless, but I'll try it every few |
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> months to see if I change my mind. (Normally my wife changes my mind |
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> for me, but she's not interested in linux so she doesn't care.) |
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> |
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I find the grouped windows of the same application to be quite |
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convenient and efficient, been using gnome-shell for months now and |
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love it. Was forced to learn all the keyboard shortcuts and I'm much |
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more productive. Alt-tab for switching between applications and Alt-` |
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for switching between the same application, very nice. |
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Just in case someone here hasn't yet come across it, here's the Gnome |
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3 cheat sheet (quite useful): |
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https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet |
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Plus the extensions are great and also simple to use. I didn't |
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install a single extension until yesterday, and I was really surprised |
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at how easy it was and how useful some of them are. Here's a short |
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list of what I found useful: |
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"Remove Accessibility" - Removes the accessibility icon from the upper right |
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"Calculator" - Allows you to do simple calculations from within the |
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shell, just press the "super" key and start typing |
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"Notifications Alert" - Makes notifications more apparent in case you miss one |
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"Media player indicator" - Sort of like Ubuntu's Unity music indicator |
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"Advanced Volume Mixer" - Lists all the app's sound levels right in |
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the drop-down mixer |
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"Panel Settings" - Some settings to change the panel visibility and location |
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Yes, normally I would prefer a lot of these features to be included in |
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the desktop environment. But they made them so easy to install and |
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try, I was really surprised and impressed. It's as if they want the |
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weird simplicity so everyone can customize it with extensions, which |
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is a nice approach to it, in my opinion. I've always disliked the |
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bloat and complexity of KDE's built-in settings, etc. But I don't |
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mean to start a flame war, that's just my taste and opinion. |