Gnome 3.0 - April 6th

[alonsoty]

Guys... practically the same thing for me!

Now, I'm so addicted to the 'old' Gnome and I can change the little that can make feel me really at ease.
I already expect that Gnome3.0 will be quite a shock for me and I will take a lot to get used to it!

Maybe I'm getting older and begins to diminish the spirit of adaptation.

No coincidence, that during this time, I installed KDE and I also want to try XFCE soon more deeply, in order to decide what to do, when Gnome3.0 will become the 'facto standard'.

[Skywalker015]

I didn't tried it yet. will try it once soon.

[gentoovortex]

How well does "fallback" mode work on Gnome 3.0?

Looks like the exde project is dead in the water. ( http://exde.org)

Just downloaded the 5.5 XFCE .iso to try. XFCE 4.8 hould be a decent replacement, faster and less of a resource hog

[Zoide]

I've been trying Gnome 3 for several hours on Arch Linux. I don't recommend to use it after necessary polishing: No 3d acceleration with latest nvidia drivers, bugs with immature programs and menu needs to be customizable (over-simplified). But I have to admit, the developers have done tremendous work on it. I do remember KDE 4.0.

Actually, I stick with Gnome 2.32, KDE 4.6.2, LXDE and Openbox.

[wolfden]

I'm still in no hurry, I prefer a stable desktop environment.

A more recent review I ran across:
http://zazaq.com/2010/05/15/gnome-3-review/

convinced him to switch from KDE even,

[Fitzcarraldo]

A more recent review I ran across:
http://zazaq.com/2010/05/15/gnome-3-review/

convinced him to switch from KDE even,

That review was posted by tekzen on May 15, 2010. If you read his comment on April 8, 2011 he had changed his mind about GNOME 3.

[svantoviit]

Another review: Datamation: GNOME 3: Seven Pros and Cons

[wolfden]

A more recent review I ran across:
http://zazaq.com/2010/05/15/gnome-3-review/

convinced him to switch from KDE even,

That review was posted by tekzen on May 15, 2010. If you read his comment on April 8, 2011 he had changed his mind about GNOME 3.

lol, ooops at me for forgetting what year it is, sheesh

[wolfden]

Another review: Datamation: GNOME 3: Seven Pros and Cons

I don't find No Icons on the Desktop a con, I see that as a pro.


Has anyone heard of Gnome removing the fallback? I really hope they don't

[gentoovortex]

Threw Arch with Gnome 3 in one of our school computers and absolutely hated it. Didn't give it a fair go but Gnome 3 really didn't make me want to stay with it after a couple of hours. Dumped it out and installed Sabayon 5.5 Gnome and all is well now (at least from mine and our IT guy's perspective). Downloading Sabayon E-17 right now to do a clean install. Loved E-17 on Bodhi Linux when I gave it a test run awhile ago. Tried 5.5 XFCE but didn't feel it was what I wanted.

Joost, are you talking about the next Gnome 3 release or the next Sabayon Gnome release when you mentioned that Gnome 2.32 will stay in the tree until the next release? Thanks!