[Gloucs] gloucs Digest, Vol 339, Issue 4

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

You could try Trinity when Gnome 2 `runs out' or maybe xfce. With the 
gtk-kde theme engine you should be able to get KDE 3 looking a bit like 
Gnome 2. But hopefully Gnome 3 might cause a fork and mean that Gnome 2 
goes on.....

Organisations seem to think that everyone wants shiny monitors and iPad 
like interfaces that are so dumbed down as to be useless to a 
professional computer user....:-(

Tony.

Sean wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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
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> 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???
>>
>>
>>     
>  Sean
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>>     1. Talk for this month (Glyn Davies)
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>> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 21:54:45 +0100
>> From: Glyn Davies <glynd at walmore.com>
>> Subject: [Gloucs] Talk for this month
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>> Any offers for a talk for this month? The next meeting is supposed to
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