[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[Jon Larsen]

Ben,

Did you get into Gnome Classic mode and is it working for you?  I just
wanted to hear a follow-up on your experience.

One of the devs at AIM is considering upgrading, and was curious about the
Gnome Classic option.

Jon L.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com>wrote:

> After one of our recent meetings when MC was mentioned, I replaced Thunar
> in
> CrunchBang with TuxCommander (aka TuxCmd -- GTK MC clone). :)
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:29 AM, <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>
> > want a lightweight gui?
> > apt-get install mc
> > :)
> >
> > > I haven't had the need to use it myself, so I don't have a personal
> > > opinion
> > > on it. The reviews I've read are that it is mode of a "modern" desktop
> > > than
> > > XFCE while using similar or fewer resources.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, George De Bruin
> > > <sndchaser at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > >> Friends do not let (nor encourage) friends to use LXDE.  Do you really
> > >> hate
> > >> Ben that much? :)
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, T. J. Brumfield <
> enderandrew at gmail.com
> > >> >wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > LXDE is also an option for those of you looking for a lightweight
> > >> desktop.
> > >> >
> > >> > If you looked at KDE 2 years ago using Ubuntu repositories, I'm sure
> > >> it
> > >> > wasn't pretty. Kubuntu had the worst, most broken implementation of
> > >> KDE
> > >> 4.x
> > >> > out there. It has gotten better. It is certainly worth looking at.
> > >> >
> > >> > The problem is that Ubuntu treats KDE like a second-class citizen,
> so
> > >> a
> > >> lot
> > >> > of the features they develop for Ubuntu never make it to Kubuntu.
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us>
> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > Just curious - did you install the gnome3 packages after you
> > >> upgraded
> > >> or
> > >> > > are you using the default Unity packages?
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On 06/27/2011 11:15 PM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >> I just finished upgrading my desktop box from Ubuntu 10.10 to
> 11.04
> > >> > >> today, and the first time I logged in, I almost went into cardiac
> > >> > >> arrest.  I can't express how badly I hate the new Gnome
> > >> environment.
> > >> > >> What are my options?  Is it possible to reconfigure this new POS
> > >> > >> to behave like the previous version?  Has KDE gotten any more
> user
> > >> > >> friendly in the 2 years since I last gave up on it?  Are there
> > >> other
> > >> > >> viable options?
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
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