[mythtv-users] .25 on Gnome 3 and I hate Gnome 3........

[R. G. Newbury]

On 03/12/2012 10:18 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
> I currently am running a couple of backends and lots of frontends on
> Fedora 12/13/14 with Gnome 2 and mythtv .23 fixes.
>
> I tried, no really, I tried and tried gnome 3 on a laptop for a month
> and frankly just hated it.  So my myth setup has stayed on what is now
> approaching a 2 year old infrastructure environment.
>
> gnome 3 just seems to be determined to work with a 'single task' idiom
> and for power users like me that just does not work.  On my laptop I
> usually have vlc connections to a number of machines as well as
> system/network monitoring tools running...gnome 3 does not lend itself
> to this kind of setup.  I'm currently trying F16 with xfce in a VM to
> see whether I can get on with that.
>
> Anyway the root of my problem is I need to upgrade my whole
> infrastructure if I implement .25 so my question to the list is.....
>
> What Desktop Environment are you using for your .25 setup, if you,
> like me are a multi functioning multi tasking user how are you getting
> around the problems inherent in Gnome 3?

I looked at the gnome desktop some time ago, and had an excursion into 
Ubuntu in a virtual about 2 years ago and *hated* it.

I use kde on all my machines (except the VOIP box!).

I tried xfce on my laptop for a couple of days, but moving between xfce 
and kde was bothersome, plus I couldn't find stuff so I went back to kde.

Geoff