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Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7
An anonymous reader writes "The H-Online is reporting that the upcoming RHEL 7 will use GNOME Classic Mode over Gnome Shell as its Default Desktop GUI. Speaking to TechTarget ahead of the 2013 Red Hat Summit, Red Hat engineering director Denise Dumas said this regarding the decision: "I think it's been hard for the Gnome guys, because they really, really love modern mode, because that's where their hearts are." She added that the same team had "done a great job putting together classic mode" and that it was eventually decided to use it in favour of the more radical modern interface to spare customers the effort of relearning their way around the desktop again."
Yeah, this poisonous trend is baked deeply into the school of "UI design". It is now an article of faith among UI designers that letting the users choose is a bad thing. It should be the designers making a choice, and that should not only be the default setting, but the only setting. This article, written by Joel Spolsky way back in 2000, gives some insight into what these people are thinking when they take choices away from users.
If you're performing a new install of Debian and want it to use xfce as your desktop right from the start, edit the install cd boot command and add the following:
desktop=xfce
Or you can go to Avanced Options and choose xfce.
Then your system will be configured for xfce from the get-go.
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. --Hofstadter's Law