[arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

[Brendan Long]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Nephyrin Zey <Nephyrin at doublezen.net>wrote:

> Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4
> situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when
> moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...),


I'm using the binary nvidia drivers and don't have any speed problems. Does
compiz work at a reasonable speed for you? If it doesn't, you might need to
fix your Xorg.conf file. If you're concerned about GNOME 3's hardware
requirements, you could always try a slimmer DE, like XFCE. It's my
understanding that GNOME is designed to be simple and easy to use, not
lightweight.


> and is lacking basic features gnome 2 had. (sensors applet, startup
> application management, multi-monitor, custom keybindings, ...).
>

GNOME is all about lacking features. Maybe you should try XFCE or KDE if you
want applets.

Although you can still control startup applications (I think the program is
called gnome-session-properties), it's just not in the new settings menu for
some reason.

I do multi-monitor through nvidia's settings so I haven't checked, but isn't
the "screen" section in system settings about the same as in GNOME 2?

Custom keybindings should be the same way (new settings menu -> keyboard?).
I'll look when I get home. My custom ctrl+shift+esc keybinding still works,
so this might just be a case of a setting moving.