Re: Ubunto
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:06:59 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
I mildly prefer GNOME 2 to XFCE. But i strongly prefer package-managed
software to build-it-yourself. I want a tool, not a hobby.
So, what are you planning to use instead? XFCE, KDE or will you just
suffer on with G3?
Aqua!
The advent of GNOME 3 has coincided closely enough with my switch from
Linux to OS X at home that i have had a lucky escape. My own old netbook
is now also on XFCE, but i don't use it all that much.
At work, we've gone over to XFCE. In terms of usability, i am currently
having more problems from the changes to autocompletion in bash 4.2 than
from the desktop switch. There is at least one upside to moving off GNOME
2 at work: i no longer sit down at a machine to find that some
enterprising colleague has completely broken the panels.
I think I'll stay with it until at G3.2 comes out and then think again
depending on whether 3.2 fixes its most obvious deficiencies. Or not.
Brave man. It will be interesting to see what 3.2 is like. I'll probably
install that, or more likely 3.3, when it comes out, just to see how
things are progressing.
I am also expecting a lot of GUI and application developers to jump ship
from GNOME to XFCE, and so a surge in development for the latter. For
example, there is not currently a maintained or integrated
Expos??/Scale-like window switcher for XFCE, but i anticipate that there
will be before too long.
tom
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