Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try
>> gnome 3.  Before I do, I wonder how others have fared.
>>
>> thanks,
>> allan
>>
>> PS my system is ~amd64.
>
> I actually like it a lot. However, a lot of things are not
> customizable, and several other things behave completely different
> from GNOME 2. I've been using it since the last month or so, and I
> think I'm already used to the new UI. I believe it's a little faster
> than GNOME 2, and it definitely get less in the way to actually do
> work.

Thank you.  Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from
gnome2 is difficult.  Did you

1.  Upgrade from 2.32.1
2.  Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3
3.  Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3
4.  Do something else

thanks again,
allan