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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 11, 2011 1:34 UTC (Fri) by TerryNewton (guest, #81311)
In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by sorpigal
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

> I always thought the goal of GNOME was to create a
> universal desktop. Something for everyone.
...
> maybe my impression was just always wrong.

I think perception is key here - in particular the perception that the shell is all there is. It is not.. under the hood I've discovered that Gnome 3 is pretty much like Gnome 2 except it's cleaner. After using gnome tweak tool to enable the nautilus-controlled desktop and window buttons, and adding a panel with an app menu (I use LxPanel) it's basically back to the same old stuff I know and love. The shell is optional.. LxPanel, desktop icons etc work fine with the shell running, or make a plain nautilus/panel session without the shell.

The real question is will the nautilus desktop functionality remain intact?

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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 14, 2011 19:24 UTC (Mon) by bats999 (guest, #70285) [Link]

I use Nautilus on the desktop also; it makes things a lot more usable for me. Folder shortcuts and script launchers come to mind. I'm sure there's a Shell way of doing this but RTFM? - TL;DR. This is supposed to be an intuitive interface after all. So yeah, I hope the Shell developers don't bury Nautilus before it's time.

(On a different note, I don't think it's accurate to say XFCE doesn't concern itself with new features. The showstopper for me when I tried it years ago was thunar's inability to browse network resources. From what I've gleaned, that's a core feature now.)