nice article about tweaking the desktop for old school gnome
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/new-desktop-interface-flops/9880
thnx
ron
indamixx.com

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tony Austin <gigaday@googlemail.com> wrote:
Thorsten Wilms said:
Which has been widely reported to be a broken, half-assed attempt at
mimicking GNOME 2.x with 3.x tech. If you want a functioning GNOME 2.x
desktop, use an earlier version of Ubuntu, or another distribution
altogether.

Tony said:
This is certainly not true of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty - I'm using it right now!!  Desktop is Gnome 2.x.

Hmm!  Not so good with 11.10 Onyx.  Must be possible though, I would think.

Tony

On 14 November 2011 14:21, Tony Austin <gigaday@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 11/13/2011 02:30 PM, Tony Austin wrote:
> With the current version of Ubuntu, if you want Gnome desktop you can
> select it from the toolbar as Ubuntu Classic when the cursor is in the
> password field of the login screen.

Thorsten Wilms said:
Which has been widely reported to be a broken, half-assed attempt at
mimicking GNOME 2.x with 3.x tech. If you want a functioning GNOME 2.x
desktop, use an earlier version of Ubuntu, or another distribution
altogether.

This is certainly not true of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty - I'm using it right now!!  Desktop is Gnome 2.x.

Tony



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