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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" modeGNOME Shell to support a "classic" modePosted Nov 21, 2012 16:08 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode
We should also have a no-integrated-chat extension, that gives me back a classic green notification area symbol for Empathy and disables the chat integration. I suspect that integrated chat is a real problem for sometimes-chatty older users, who
(a) do not know whether they are really online or not (as there is no red/green element telling them anywhere)
(b) are confused by having two different ways to chat with people (a chat window from Empathy and the internal notification-like chat from shell)
But this all still does not solve the problem of running GNOME on ARM devices without sensible 3D support, and is thus most likely not a really acceptable solution for (mostly Debian) people wanting to run desktops on ARM.
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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:20 UTC (Wed) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]
Well ARM hardware do have very capable GPUs. What lacks are drivers so people should spend effort on fixing that rather then working around the fact that drivers suck.
A device / OS without working GPU acceleration is just not competitive anymore in 2012/3.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 10:01 UTC (Fri) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]
Sure, devices without GPU acceleration may be non-competitive these days, but the hardware isn't the problem. It's access to good quality drivers that is still and issue. XFCE runs well on everything I have, is well designed, and doesn't call for 3D acceleration everywhere it's not needed (and 3D acceleration is needed precisely never on a desktop).
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 10:36 UTC (Fri) by kigurai (guest, #85475) [Link]
Needed and "darned convenient and pretty" are not the same thing.
I could probably do everything I do in Win 3.11 or CDE, if the applications would run there. I don't NEED anything else, really. But I WANT a prettier desktop with more functionality. If you are happy with XFCE, then run XFCE. I tried the Fedora XFCE spin on a netbook quite recently. Quite quickly changed back to Gnome 3 since it works better (for me). Sure, it is slower than XFCE, but it was an acceptable loss to get the added functionality.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:26 UTC (Wed) by dront78 (guest, #47603) [Link]
The integration is just right way but not fully done now, because can;t be disabled :)
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