[NCLUG] Fedora 17 Gnome 3

Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com
Sun Nov 18 23:50:31 MST 2012


Quent Johnson wrote:
> N0WIQ wrote:
> > I have been trying to make Gnome 3 as usuful as I nwas doing with Gnome
> > 2.  The big thing I notice is the lack of panels that I could drop quick
> > launch buttons in a drawer and keep them organized with different
> > drawers.  I need a Gnome 3 user to mention how to do all the things with
> > gnome 3 that I had been using with gnome 2.  I have installed
> > gnome-tweak-tool and that went a long way toward making me happy with
> > Gnome 3 but something is still lacking.
> 
> This might not be the right answer for you, but my solution was to 
> switch to KDE.

Of the window managers that I surveyed after the demise of GNOME 2 the
two that were most like GNOME 2 were LXDE and XFCE.  Most people seem
to be migrating from GNOME 2 to XFCE.  Most people who have moved from
GNOME 2 to XFCE seem to be pretty happy with it.

Bob



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