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Re: Ubunto

From Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Ubunto
Date 2011-10-15 17:15 +0100
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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 
Exposé/Scale-like window switcher for XFCE, but i anticipate that there 
will be before too long.

tom

-- 
Desdemona may collide with either Cressida or Juliet within the next
100 million years.

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            Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-15 15:06 +0100
              Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-15 15:59 +0000
                Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-15 17:15 +0100
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-15 16:48 +0000
                Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-15 15:45 -0400
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 00:17 +0000
                Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-16 23:40 +0100
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 23:50 +0000
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                Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-16 20:41 -0400
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    Re: Ubunto Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-15 13:04 -0700
      Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 01:03 +0000
        Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 00:31 +0100
          Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 00:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-16 22:03 -0400
              Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 15:08 +0100
              Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 21:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 16:47 +0100
          Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-16 20:55 -0400
            Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 21:37 +0000
          Re: Ubunto Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-16 22:14 -0400

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