[arch-general] gnome2.32

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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 at 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.