Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: B1ll Gat3s Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:16:47 -0400 Organization: 0wnz0ring j00r b0x s1nce 1987 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: j+yFUrb81ZsBd0sEvUfwkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.0/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8811 On 14/10/2011 6:20 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:00:40 -0400, B1ll Gat3s wrote: > >> On 14/10/2011 9:21 AM, Tom Anderson wrote: >>> It's utterly vile. We got GNOME 3 with Fedora 15, and switched over to >>> XFCE after about five minutes. >>> >>> XFCE is quite a step down from GNOME 2, but it's miles better than >>> GNOME 3. I am counting my blessings that i recently bought a Mac! >> >> What is wrong with GNOME 3? [much stuff] > - as you do other things this sensitive area tends to grow as time > passes and to overlap application windows including the one that > has focus. It gets bloody big too - something like a quarter circle > with its centroid in the top left corned and a raduis of half the > screen height. This sounds like a bug. They'll probably fix it soon. >> And if you prefer GNOME 2 to both GNOME 3 and XFCE, why not just >> use GNOME 2? > > Because G2 been removed from the latest Ubuntu release and AFAIK the same > will happen with the release of Fedora 16. Then get it directly from the GNOME folks, or wherever else it might be. If enough people are displeased with GNOME 3 there WILL be SOMEwhere where GNOME 2 is preserved for people that prefer it to download and install. Just because it's no longer available at the same time as the OS with a one-stop shop doesn't mean it's impossible to get and install it, period, you know. -- A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) 00010E36. The current application will be terminated. * Press any key to terminate the current application.