On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:17:49AM -0300, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
Em Ter, 2011-07-05 às 02:58 +0300, Evangelos Foutras escreveu:
On 5 July 2011 01:53, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> wrote:
Just in case some of you need the old gnome.
That's not how we roll, and people should be discouraged from using frozen repositories.
I know, I do not like the idea too. I build the repository only because I have several (30+) notebooks, used by end users that are unable to use gnome3. Gnome3 is too advanced for them, or the notebooks do not have graphical hardware for gnome3 (3D). They barely can operate gnome2 (they came from windows XP)... The keyboard commands in gnome3 is not an option for them. The option was to come back to windows XP. but they would loose the libreoffice, the evolution, epiphany, gthumb. They are: musicist, nurses, house wifes, old peole (60+ yo)... and so on... I tried the Xfce, but it does not have integration gnome have (automount, gphoto, gthumb, eog, evince... Kde is too complicated for them. some have used Kde 3.2...
You might want to give mint xfce, or mint lxde a try. They have nice set of tools and will work nice on older hardware.