Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Svante Signell <svante.signell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>Looks like the fallback alternative is gone, The netspeed applet is still in the debian testing repo. And it works with the gnome3 components that are currently in testing. >>so I have to use the default mess I wouldn't call the default "messy" but "radically reduced". Unfortunately, the reduction includes many features that improve productivity of experienced users. Even more unfortunately, this includes most handles to easily configure the desktop to the needs of the individual user. The default gnome3 theme implicitely sends the message "my way, or the highway" Fortunately, there are ways to regain most of the gnome2 look and feel. I do not talk about the dumbed down "classic" session that gdm3 offers by default. Enter the suspiciously windows like "gnome-tweaks" application, loads of third party "extensions", not documented use of built-in tools on the command line, some XML guess work and a few hours of spare time. In my case, the result is a gnome3 desktop with three of the good old gnome-panels, my preferred applets, and a main menu. Most importantly, the panels contain a constantly visible windows list and a graphical desktop switcher. The obnoxious notifications. The top panel does not tell me my name anymore, there is a power-off button and there are clickable icons on the desktop. > oh, you must mean the current awesomeness. GNOME3 has been a real > pleasure to use and definativelly improves my productivity. Well, some of the new features are really nice. But again, the default theme of gnome3 tries to force feed its ideals to the user. This is clearly bad form. >> Is there a >>replacement for the netspeed applet available? > The is an extension that add GNOME System Monitor graphs to the > notification bar. The netspeed applet does not show graphs but less intrusive but still more infomative numbers. By the way, the scale of the system monitor graph receives a rescale about once a minute. That way, you can't really judge the quality of the connection at a glance. >>Is there any settings that at least mimics the looks-and-feel of >>gnome 2 available??? > > Of course not, this is GNOME3. Of course, there is. The infrastructure of gnome3 is much more flexible than gnome2 ever was. However, to actually use this flexibility, needs more effort than it should. See above. > To switch, now I have to >>move >>the mouse to the upper left corner, > > > Alt-F1 or the windows key. Most of the time, I prefer to use the constantly visible windows list in the panel, though. >>application (if I can find it there, no icons with titles any >>longer). > > ??? u get a thumbail of the actual window Which sometimes is less informational than the window title. Imagine several instances of a text editor. They look almost the same in thumb view. Some gnome3 themes add the window title to the thumb nail. There is an extension that adds the icon of the application to the thumb. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
