How about Gnome Flashback? I just got a link to this, haven't read it yet but might suit?
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/199/Gnome-Flashback?utm_source=Lin... +Update&utm_campaign=Linux_Update_138_Gnome_Flashback_2017-06-28&utm_medium=email -- Phil Thane
www.pthane.co.uk phil@pthane.co.uk 01767 449759 07582 750607 Twitter @pthane On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:11:37 BST Paul Tansom wrote:
** steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk [2017-06-28 14:23]:
On 28/06/17 09:18, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 27/06/17 23:19, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 27/06/17 10:12, Ted Harding wrote:
Many thanks, Laurie. That clarifies a number of things! And, yes, live disks of LMC and LMM is an excellent suggestion. And I like (and really sympathise with) the reasons the Mint team went the way they did. In fact, "the way Gnome was going" turned out to be the main reason I have'nt upgraded my Debian for years!
As I understand it, Cinnamon is cloned Gnome 2 but then improved. Mate is Mint's replacement for Gnome. I expect that they're both "better" than Gnome 3 for you, and for me.
According to Wikipedia it's Gnome 3-based.
This desktop is running LMC 17.3:
---- cut here --- ~ $ apt-cache show gnome-shell | grep Version Version: 3.10.4-0ubuntu5.2 Version: 3.10.4-0ubuntu5 ---- cut here ---
Cheers, Laurie.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect it's using Gnome 3 technology, libraries, APIs, GTK3 etc but customised to make it look and behave like Gnome 2.
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Having just installed Ubuntu MATE on my laptop to take a look and decide where I'm going after Unity (Gnome is looking far from promising and more like a toolkit to create a decent desktop with, if you can find the right extensions and enough of them!), I've found it very much Gnome 2 like. Things I've liked and then remembered I was using in Gnome 2 before the change to Unity. Some of them feel a bit dated now, but things can be tweaked to be more modern if you want to. A good amount of what is happening with MATE is under the hood with the migration from Gnome 2 libraries to Gnome 3. I've not tried Cinnamon or Mint, but MATE is looking very good for people who like Gnome 2, and interestingly, can be configured surprisingly well for people, like me, who have grown to rather like Unity. I guess personally I'm on a win win there :)