One Week With GNOME 3 Classic 169
An anonymous reader writes "Stephen Gallagher, Security Software Engineer at Red Hat, has completed his week-long experiment running GNOME 3 Classic. Stephen writes: 'While I was never as much in love with GNOME 2 as I was with KDE 3, I found it to be a good fit for my workflow. It was clean and largely uncluttered and generally got out of my way. Now that Fedora 19 is in beta and GNOME Classic mode is basically ready, I decided that it was my duty to the open-source community to explore this new variant, give it a complete investigation and document my experiences each day.' I'll leave Stephen's opinion on the new Classic Mode to the Slashdot reader to discover, but I will say that it does touch on the much debated GNOME Shell Activities Overview, and the gnome-2-like Classic mode's Windows List on the taskbar."
People who liked GNOME 2 and want... (Score:5, Informative)
something polished instead of raw should try XFCE. With a little tweaking, I have xubuntu 13.04 looking a whole lot like GNOME 2.32 from Ubuntu 10.10.
Re:no dammit (Score:4, Informative)
The desktop is a place to keep your jumping-off points:
- links to programs that you really do use constantly
- symlinked directories (shortcut folders for you wintendo people) to your main work
- todo lists and possibly some sort of scheduler applet (rainlendar ftw!)
The inane desktop clutter of links to free smilies and whatever crap Google and Yahoo are pushing these days is... *insert adjective*
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