GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 11:32 UTC (Fri) by LightDot (guest, #73140)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by mmonaco
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Your parents or grandparents could use Mate, like mentioned, or Cinnamon. The first is a Gnome 2 fork and the second is a Gnome-shell & Gnome 3 window manager fork, with somewhat sanitized UI.

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

There are of course other options, like KDE, Xfce, LXD. Or simply using a distribution that still carries and supports Gnome 2 and will do so for years to come, such as CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6. I do this in such cases for now.

Personally, I'm currently testing Enlightenment e17 alpha release and I'm very pleasantly surprised.

I should mention that I reasonably like Gnome-shell too. But I strongly dislike the general attitude of the project towards user suggestions and the butchering of existing UI functionality. Their "improvements" of Nautilus file manager UI were what finally did it for me.

Then again, there would be no Cinnamon without this, no Nemo without them "working" on Nautilus. Competition is a good thing and all this is a showcase for open source approach to software.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 16:08 UTC (Fri) by dashesy (guest, #74652) [Link]

I am using Cinnamon on Fedora now for quite some time and am very happy with it, the look is impressive and the workflow is neat. I do not understand why not every Windows user has switched to Cinnamon already, after Windows 8 disaster.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 17:47 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

> Personally, I'm currently testing Enlightenment e17 alpha release and I'm very pleasantly surprised.

I'm waiting for the stable release.

I haven't used E since the Red Hat days (was that 6?), so I'm looking forward to trying it again.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 17:52 UTC (Fri) by mmonaco (guest, #84041) [Link]

Wow, nice job Cinnamon folks. My parents/grandparents can definitely use this. Now if only the LightDM guys hadn't changed the gtk-greeter to a drop down menu.