Gnome-shell

[Toothsaw]

Today I dist upgraded my Debian testing install and it pulled in Gnome 3 with the terrible gnome-shell. That thing just sucks donkey balls. What the hell is wrong with the Gnome devs thinking this is an improvement? If there ever was a prime example of their "we know best" attitude this is it. Luckily the gnome panel is still in place, now it's just the fallback session.

Ofcourse being debian Gnome in testing is still only on gtk3.0 while all the gtk3 themes on gnome-look are mostly on gtk3.2

 

[gunslingingbird]

 

[knowone]

To quote Jackie Gleason "Find out what he's been drinking and order me a case!"

 

[PirateKing]

Whatever a gnome-shell is, it sounds cool and I want it.

 

[lurkingdirk]

I believe this thread should be relegated to the "What the fuck are you talking about" portion of the board.

 

[PirateKing]

Gtk man, gtk.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Petra has hordes of lawn gnomes. Maybe she knows what the fuck is going on here.

Side note: Goombas are awesome...

Random/10

 

[gunslingingbird]

Gtk man, gtk.

Gtk? Moar liek gtfo! Amirite?

 

[anom543]

So, since we're speaking in code I'll just roll with it...

I hate gnome-shell, I think it's freaking rediculus. It's no secret that the devs of Unity and Gnome-Shell are aiming for the tablet market though, think about it. Because it's really more of a business and the number of people who don't understand what your talking about is a prime example that we're in the minority...

I'm using unity right now, it's definitely more usable in my opinion, but I plan on switching back to Lucid so I can have the classic gnome... One thing that you should keep up with is the MATE desktop envirnment, it's a gnome 2.6.x fork and it's being adopted by the Mint guys so you know it's going somewhere. I'm gonna stick with Lucid for now but once Precise comes out, the MATE repos will probably be mature enough to be able to install a full and usable desktop off it them. I installed MATE from the current Mint repos on my Oncelot install, didn't really work well... But it's a start!

Squeeze still supports 2.3.x, so I'd just stick with that if I was on Debian... Like I said though I'm moving back to Lucid. Since it's LTS it'll still be supported for quite a while, or at least long enough for XFCE 4 to mature enough to be a step up from gnome 2.3...

 

[squallumz]

the good news is theres a cute blue on the home page.

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/

aw, kittie!

 

[Toothsaw]

Squeeze still supports 2.3.x, so I'd just stick with that if I was on Debian... Like I said though I'm moving back to Lucid. Since it's LTS it'll still be supported for quite a while, or at least long enough for XFCE 4 to mature enough to be a step up from gnome 2.3...

XFCE 4 is looking pretty mature right now so I'm going to give it a shot. It does have some of it's own quirks like Thunar is a hardcoded dependency. I've also looked at KDE a while ago but it's way to bloated for my taste. It just sucks they had to fuck up Gnome like this.