[Gloucs] gloucs Digest, Vol 339, Issue 4

[David Evans]

Depending on how long she has been away from Windows she may have a surprise 
here too. The "Live" applications (some of the "useful" apps once supplied as 
standard) use the new "Ribbon" interface, and which M$ Office now uses and 
Windows 8 will apparently take even further. It takes some getting used to IMHO, 
frustrating even. Also, trying to find things under the Control Panel seems to 
be much more difficult (Windows 7 compared to XP, I skipped Vista). I could go 
on, yawn!

I use VirtualBox under Windows 7 to run Ubuntu and spend most of my computing 
time in this environment. Gnome 2 is slick, far better then KDE 4, which is far 
worse then KDE 3, which was much better than Gnome 1. Hah :-), just my opinion 
though.

Regards,
Lyndon


----- Original Message ----
From: Sean <msfin303 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thu, 19 May, 2011 11:28:54
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] gloucs Digest, Vol 339, Issue 4

I have to be honest I like the Gnome 2, its simplicity, never really warmed to 
KDE  

+ the Wife seems to find the Gnome easier than the KDE... 
The good thing about Linux is we all have choices....

What Concerns me is that Gnome 3 is it's quite radically different.. For me 
that's not a problem, but for the wife , she has taken one look at it and gone 
completely "Blank", my concern is it will end up forcing her back to windows, 
which I don't want to do...

Is it possible to install the Gnome 3 but change the look and feel back to the 
Gnome 2 style???

Sean



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From: Anthony Edward Cooper <aecooper at coosoft.plus.com>
To: Sean <msfin303 at yahoo.co.uk>; Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2011, 8:21
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] gloucs Digest, Vol 339, Issue 4

Oh don't depress me! - Well I guess that will be the death of Gnome on 
anything other than a mobile device then. Why oh why when they just get 
Gnome2 usable and stable do they have to go and wreck it all again.

Interestingly for those of you that want a functional and useful desktop 
without too much bloat, what with the backlash against Gnome 3, Unity 
and KDE4 (which is miles better than Gnome3/Unity but not configurable 
enough and resource hungry), there is  the Trinity desktop (basically 
KDE 3.5 but `ported' to newer Linux distros).

Long live Trinity :-).

Tony.
Sean wrote:
> What about the new Gnome 3 desktop that is about to come out???
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Sean
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