From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 15:36:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 591F2417 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mgaterz1.oekb.co.at (mgaterz1.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mgaterz1.oekb.co.at", Issuer "Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA7F31563 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from exchhubcas1.oekb.co.at ([143.245.3.64]) by mgaterz1.oekb.co.at with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 07 Jan 2015 16:35:07 +0100 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at (143.245.9.16) by internal-relay-exchhubcas1.oekb.co.at (143.245.3.65) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.210.2; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:35:05 +0100 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t07FZ541026945; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:35:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) Received: (from ej@localhost) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t07FZ5TA026944; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:35:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) X-Authentication-Warning: aurora.oekb.co.at: ej set sender to a@jenisch.at using -f Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:35:05 +0100 From: Ewald Jenisch To: Valeri Galtsev Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <20150107153505.GB26903@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: a jenisch , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:36:22 -0000 On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:12:11AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > ... > If you are happy with Gnome 3, just junk this > my e-mail. Anyway, I asked on this list an advice "from a person not ready > to join ipad generation ;-)" what would be decent replacement of Gnome 3. > > Thanks to everybody for all your advices and suggestions!! > > I ended up switching from Gnome 3 to mate. I just added mate, leaving > everything else as it was (i.e. starting gdm, etc.), and at X login screen > I can choose mate. And I work on my workstation happily ever since. As > (someone mentioned on this thread) mate is a fork of Gnome. Hi Valeri et al, Thanks much for the info wrt Gnome3. Taking a look at the screenshots for Gnome3 vs. mate the decision was clear for me: Mate. I did a "pkg install mate" today and after upgrading the rest of my packages to latest versions mate is running and from what I've seen so far it's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. You were right - it's a desktop environment for working not an eye candy ;-) Thanks again to you all for your help, -ewald