On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:58:36AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > >GNOME 2 experience can be achieved with GNOME 3 fallback mode. > > One feature of GNOME 2 which a number of existing users took > advantage of was "configurability". GNOME3 is less configurable, > __including__ that GNOME 3 'fallback mode'. The same happened in almost each GNOME 2.x release. The redesign of e.g. gnome-control-center + wish for an tweak tool was "planned" (wanted by maintainers) for various years (documented in various bugreports). The talk about GNOME 3 triggered the work to actually happen. It could've also been happened during a GNOME 2.x release, but due to "3" talk it is more logical to do it at a 2->3 version change. > In GNOME2 I could use the Right-Mouse-Button within the panels to > move icons around (or delete them); I could also add panels, or > change a panel's thickness. You can still mouse icons around. To fix a bug (the one where icons are randomly moved), instead of placing stuff anywhere you like, you can now only align it to left/middle/right. This to solve that "screen resolution change bug messes up gnome-panel" bug. And I haven't used the version 3 of the panel, but I'm pretty sure you can still add/remove panels and so on. Did you press alt? > Some developers might not be considering such features to be part of > 'the GNOME 2 experience' -- but in my opinion they were for some > users an important part of "arranging what I look at to be the way I > like it" -- resulting in a pleasurable sense of "GNOME 2 gives me > the facilities that fit into the way I do things". The absence of > such customizable details is what leaves me with less pleasure when > working with GNOME 3. The examples you gave for the gnome panel I cannot relate to; though I do have to test. Some settings (e.g. focus-follows-mouse) have been moved to gnome-tweak-tool instead of being visible by default. But it is an interesting perspective. Though I just don't see the logic in the need to support GNOME 2, while nothing should change. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
