Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2011-11-26 21:07, schrieb walt:

> The new gnome-shell is the controversial piece of gnome3 and (so far)
> I find it counterproductive.
>
> I googled how to disable the gnome-shell and get my gnome-panel back,
> along with the panel applets that I refuse to give up.  (The gnome-
> shell replaces the gnome-panel, so there is nowhere to run the old
> applets.)
>
> If you want to disable gnome-shell you can do it with the System Info
> function in System Settings.  Click the Graphics icon and enable the
> gnome-fallback setting to disable gnome-shell.  Ah, much better :)

Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of
gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of
the new stuff and use the mentioned gnome-fallback-setting?

I also hesitate to leave my comfort zone ...  ;-) (and I am on ~amd64 as
well).

Thanks, Stefan