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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. As someone who uses GNOME 3... by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dont understand the problems that people have with it. I spent an hours learning it, I kept an open mind and ended up really liking it.

    That said - 90% of what I do requires a shell so maybe Im missing something....

    1. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I personally must say the same, it gave me a lot less problems than gnome2. All in all, it just worked. I didn't feel the need to configure much, if anything (made middle mouse click be minimize windows).

    2. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well personally I ran screaming in horror after the first two hours of flailing around trying to regain something approaching my old workflow. To each his own I suppose.

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    3. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... by wiredlogic · · Score: 2, Interesting

      These are the people who think that Win95 was the apex of UI design. Leave them to their retro revelry.

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    4. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... by Lisias · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I dont understand the problems that people have with it.[...]

      Ergo, you don't understand the way people uses computers. :-)

      I *create* things on my computer. Each "task" is done using a Code Editor (for code), an Text Processor (for requirements), a bunch of Browsers (for references, searches when in doubt and task and bug tracking) and sometimes a graphical editor (for, imagine that, graphics processing).

      Some tasks need a subset of all above. Some others, need them all. And having a workspace based on applications is the very dumbest idea of all times - producing content is a multi-hole, multi disciplinar, task.

      Gnome 3 tried to force down end-user, consumer solutions into professional's throat. Bad idea - not even Microsoft succeed into this (see Windows 8.1).

      My solution to the problem? I just switched for Mac OS X. I found it was easier to work there than to wait 1 or 2 years until Gnome realize the huge mistake they did.

      (And NO, I WILL NOT USE KDE - I don't like Windows-like environments, or I would use Windows at the first place!).

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  2. Re:a couple years late by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to use ubuntu. Took one look at Unity and switched to xubuntu.

  3. Gnome 1 rocks by water-and-sewer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just for fun last week I reinstalled one of the first distros that really got me cooking on Linux: SUSE 8.0, running KDE3.0 and Gnome 1. And you know what, I think Gnome 1 is the version that worked for me - sawfish windowmanager,hugely tweakable, some cool themes, and so on. Yes, the apps were in an earlier and less-useful state, but as a desktop, it was pretty cool.

    I had a fun time going down nostalgia lane with apps like Balsa and Spruce and even the early versions of Nautilus file manager (long before they went nuts on the "spatial" metaphor etc.) and even early version of the Pan newsreader.

    Maybe it's nostalgia, but that was a pretty good desktop. Gnome 2 never really floated my boat. And Gnome 3 can wither and die, as far as I'm concerned. It makes me so unproductive it drives me to turn off the computer and go read a book or something.

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