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Giving GNOME 3 a GNOME 2 Look

Posted by Soulskill on from the fighting-change-by-any-means-necessary dept.

nanday writes "GNOME Shell Extensions have done more than any other set of features to make GNOME 3 usable. Nearly 270 in number, they provide a degree of customization that was missing in the first GNOME 3 releases. In fact, if you choose, you can use the extensions to go far beyond Classic GNOME and re-create almost exactly the look and feel of GNOME 2 while taking advantage of the latest GNOME 3 code."

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  1. why bother? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know this will invite a flame or three, but the proper response here is Mate.

  2. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... by lvxferre · · Score: 5, Informative

    The hate against GNOME 3 has mixed origins. Some are natural, as "they changed now it sucks" reactions; the fact GNOME 2 was/is great also doesn't help at all. Some are because the software is new and nowhere mature. But some are genuine complaints from the users for GNOME 3 not actually improving their experience, but getting in the way to do common tasks - the devs confused "simple" with "simplistic" and are completely deaf for users' requests (some as simple as putting back in 3.7 a background configuration already present in 3.6.

    As for me, I just moved to MATE when the whole thing happened and I'm quite happy with it.

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