[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 has landed

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 11/26/2011 02:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2011-11-26 22:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>
>> Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of
>> gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of
>> the new stuff and use the mentioned gnome-fallback-setting?
>>
>> I also hesitate to leave my comfort zone ...  ;-) (and I am on ~amd64 as
>> well).
>
> I think I will keep on masking ...
>
> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3-fallback.html for example
> tells me there are no applets, no desktop-behavior that I am used to.

That's where I learned about fallback-mode, but you can indeed install
panel applets like system-monitor, weather, clock, etc and add panel
icons to start your favorite apps.

One *very* important thing to know, however:  To do things like move
your panel icons around and add new ones, you must alt-right-click
on the panel instead of just plain right-click.  Took me a while to
google that one.  (This works only in fallback mode, BTW.)

I'd say gnome3 is definitely better now than kde4 was when it first
launched.  (But that's faint praise indeed :)