On 06/05/12 22:50, JD wrote:
Hi All, Without dissing or criticizing gnome3, I must say I have nothing but problems with using it. For example, selecting the Gnome, or the Classic Gnome desktop manager, I can no longer see the desktop in other workspaces that I created, except workspace 1. Viewing the desktop in a window (as compared on the workspace) does not cut it for me... Starting apps always start in workspace 1, even though I select the app from Applications drop down menu in some other workspace. I am unable to change the position of the Applications toolbar to the left vertical position, and the currently running apps toolbar to the right vertical position. I am unable to create new gnome launch icons on the desktop (or at least, I have not figured out how). Right click on desktop has no effect. I am unable to add new icons of apps to the menu bar for quick launch. And finally, on my HW (AMD Athlon64 3200+)) platform, the response time with F16 is so horribly slow, that F14 practically appeared to respond like lightning - albeit I have had much faster response time on older Fedora releases (such as F7 and F8), on this same HW. In short, I think I will have to dump F16, and switch back to F14 or switch to a completely different distro that has not switched to gnome3. Thanx for all the good and the bad times :)
Have you tried running in Fallback mode? I find it perfectly usable in that mode.
I ran preupgrade today from 15 -> 16 & apart from a twenty minute stall at selinux-targeted-policy during the upgrade it went without a hitch & 16 is far snappier than 15 & boots a lot quicker.
The most surprising thing of all is that the upgrade was carried out on an old IBM ThinkPad T42 with 1GB of RAM & in fallback it's flying along & I see none of the problems you're describing.
I hope you get it sorted. I did run the KDE Live CD before upgrading but decided to stick with Gnome albeit without the visual bells & whistles.
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