> Hi, Folks --
>
> I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer
> Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310. Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough,
> but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed). Gnome and Xorg
> are offering only resolutions of 1024x768 and 8
2011/11/20 Sthu Deus :
> Good time of the day.
>
>
> I'm concerned on safety of install over network (the netinst) - what
> techniques are used to protect the installed system during the very
> process of installation?
>
> Or it includes some risk for the install and therefore media (kind of
> disk
> You can make Gnome3-shell look as near as damn it like gnome2-shell
That's good news :)
> The only thing I haven't been able to do with 3 that i could do with 2 is
> right click
> on an app in the drop down menu to put a short cut of the app either on the
> desktop or the panel.
> And I haven
> You have therefore missed the posts about it on this very list. Many
> people do now use it, and support is growing. The most recent
> version, 3.10.13, was released a few days ago. (KDE3 ended at
> 3.5.10.) TDE It is unlikely ever to rival KDE4 or GNOME3, but the
> option is valuable and is
>> Why weren't the new gnome packages named with a "3" in their name, to allow
>> both gnome 2 and gnome 3 to exist in the repositories, and allow the user to
>> choose which one they want? After all, we had apache and apache2, php4 and
>> php5, mysql4 and mysql5, etc, etc.
>>
>> I'm not saying the
>> d) Fork GNOME2 and bring it back yourself. It's Free Software.
>
I just want to point out that a gnome 2 fork already exists: it is
called Mate [1,2].
IMHO, it is unlikely that gnome 2 fork (like this) get a big
audience/support. It is true that there is a big disappointment about
gnome 3 (as
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