Ubuntu Gnome Seeking Long Term Support Status

sfcrazy writes "The Ubuntu Gnome team wants to join the elite club of Ubuntu flavors which enjoy the LTS (Long Term Support) status. Ubuntu 14.04 will be an LTS release making it a good time for the Ubuntu Gnome flavor to be promoted since it will be two more years before the next LTS release."

Re:Pah ... gnome sux

[Xicor]

i liked the previous gnome... but the current one tries too hard to be apple and doesnt work very well.

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[Anonymous Coward]

sudo apt-get -y install gnome
sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s gnome-classic

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session

1. Winkey-Alt-Rightclick on the clock in the panel and select "Remove".
(This deletes ALL the default items in the Panel, by deleting the "Indicator Applet Complete".)
2. Winkey-Alt-Rightclick on the Panel and select "Add to Panel". Select "Indicator Applet Session"
3. Winkey-Alt-Rightclick on the Panel and

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[Nimey]

Or MATE for a more GNOME 2.xx look:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.o... [mate-desktop.org] precise main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
# this installs base packages
sudo apt-get install mate-core
# this installs more packages
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

s/precise/saucy/g if you're running 13.10 instead of 12.04.

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[Nimey]

Dammit slashcode.

That first line again:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http: //packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main"

remove the space between : and // above.

Re:Pah ... gnome sux

[MBGMorden]

No - the current one tries to be "different". Mac OS is far more traditionally oriented than Gnome 3.

They didn't just shoot themselves in the foot with that release - they did so with almost the entire userbase screaming "Don't do it!!!!!".

Oh well. XFCE makes for a perfectly fine replacement.

Re:Pah ... gnome sux

[H0p313ss]

I agree that Gnome 3 out of the box is a bit of a train-wreck in terms of usability, but what I discovered is now that gnome-shell has been around for a while there's lots of extensions that make it highly configurable and I have to confess I like what I can do with it.

But what I can do with it is nothing like the default behavior. :)

2 years 3 months

[duckintheface]

Since LTS distributions are supported for 5 years, why would Gnome only be supported for 2 years?

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[willoughby]

Allright, according to you the guy's a prick. So how does that extrapolate to saying no to an LTS release of Ubuntu Gnome?

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[wjcofkc]

Sounds like a good old fashioned grudge to me. I have worked with him. While I will admit to helping him get started on his ToriOS project, I take no credit for that website. He's not a bad guy, he's a my way or the highway kinda guy. Which is too bad because his grasp of technology really is limited. While I, along with others, left that project out of differences (gee, did I help kill it?), he really is too nice a guy to get mad at. Unless you're Mr. Grudge up there ( I can guess who that is). Best of luc

I want Ubuntu 8.04 back.

[X10]

Why does Canonical keep fixing things that aren't broken, things that everybody's happy with? Ubuntu doesn't want to be Apple, nor does it want to be Windows. Ubuntu wants to be Ubuntu.

Re:I want Ubuntu 8.04 back.

[slashdot_commentator]

1) There are a lot of detractors of Gnome 3. Everyone is not happy with it.

2) What you don't grasp is what I admire about Canonical/Shuttleworth. What kept Linux (or Ubuntu) from dominating the desktop was an inferior GUI experience to Apple/Windows (and unequal driver support). You could chose Gnome or KDE, both too flawed and two unmotivated to compete for the general (dumb) consumer market, give up and go with some form of LXDE(?), or do what Canonical did. Canonical wanted to go after what it saw was the future, and instead of unsuccessfully negotiating with Gnome & KDE designer councils to implement what Canonical wanted, Canonical took its future into its own hands. Computing hardware was moving to tablets, phones & gear, not desktops, and they wanted a GUI that could bridge both worlds. That's why they went to Unity, and given the problems producing a compositor competitive with DirectX, they went to Wayland, then Mir.

3) Every megalomanic in Unixland operates like a bloodthirsty Bolshevik, and thinks Canonical owes them a living for failure or half a loaf.

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[pmontra]

I admire both Canonical and the Gnome team because they made bold decisions and innovated the desktop. Unfortunately they moved into directions far away from how I like to use my desktop. At least I hope Canonical succeeds in giving us a device that can be both a phone and a computer. My dream is a 100 g (3.5 oz) device with the same computing power of a quad core i7. Many years to go.

Disclaimer: I'm using better and worse in a subjective way in this post. I'm not deluding myself by thinking that everybo

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[diebels]

I haven't managed to like running gnome3 or unity on non touch screens computers, and the classic session does not seem very classic. Gnome2 is still alive and well though (not broken just yet), I have it running here with some useful compiz effects. Just install gnome-session-flashback and some extras for compiz; compizconfig-settings-manager, compiz-gnome, compiz-plugins-extra, and you're good to go.

In other news

[slashdot_commentator]

...I want a pony, Canonical. Pay up!

Its pretty freaking obvious that Canonical's GUI strategy (Unity/Mir) does not involve depending on Gnome. Since neither Shuttleworth is the richest man on earth, or Canonical isn't making a huge profit, why should they be investing salaries into an ancillary GUI, which isn't even that popular within the industry?

I hope Canonical decides to include Gnome into the 14.04 LTS, but only if the company thinks they can afford to invest resources towards it.