Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 15:20 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by proski
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

There's a "classic desktop experience" fallback session you can choose in GDM. I cannot say if it's classic Ubuntu GNOME (i.e. application indicators/notifications), or classic GNOME GNOME, since I haven't tried it myself. In fact I haven't upgraded to 11.04 yet.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 15:32 UTC (Thu) by jonnyvice (guest, #62517) [Link] (3 responses)

It's Ubuntu's build of gnome which is for the most part a gnome experience. gnome3 and unity are both definitely not. And it's not going to be there in the next release. There is a gnome3 fallback in the distributions packaging gnome3 (i've tried Fedora and OpenSuse's gnome 3 preview to see it), but it's a gnome3 fallback (nothing can be configured, it's activities based, just doesn't use mutter) and not what we've been using for years. For Ubuntu, that gnome option for classic will not be available in the next release when they rebase to gtk3.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 17:28 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!

I understand adding Unity as the default interface, OK. But removing GNOME2 when GNOME3 is barely released and full of bugs?

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 12:58 UTC (Fri) by markshuttle (guest, #22379) [Link] (1 responses)

We're not removing Gnome 2. It will be there, a click or two away, as long as Gnome itself continues to publish it.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 13:11 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

The Gnome 3 fallback interface can't really be described as Gnome 2, so is the aim to continue shipping the (unmaintained) 2.32 branch even after Unity is ported to GTK 3?

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 8:28 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Just be cautious and disable autologin before update. If it happens that Unity is not supported in your hardware (apparently some nvidia and older intel cards like mine) you will not be offered with such an option, and will get a frozen screen instead.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 13:44 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Also, if you are upgrading from the "Netbook Edition" make sure you disable auto-login as well.

I did not and was presented with a blank desktop where it was impossible to do anything. Luckily, I was able to bring up a virtual console and disable auto-login.

The issue was that "Netbook Ubuntu" was selected instead of just "Ubuntu" in the login menu. I switch to "Ubuntu" and all was well. It booted up into the new Unity interface.

I guess the "Netbook" desktop was removed but it was still the default for my login account.