On 14/10/11 17:10, nev young wrote:
Oh my. Oh dear.
I've just upgraded (one of) my ubuntu VBoxes from 11.04 to 11.10.
How do I get the nice previous gnome desktop back and get rid of the abomination that has replaced it.
Of course, I 'spect everyone will think the BIG clicky bar down the left is k3wl and I'm just being an old fart.
No not necessarily.
I was using the Unity interface on 11.04 for my secondary machine so thought there was no harm letting the main machine upgrade to 11.10 and it's "enforced" Unity.
Oh dear.....either I have come to the party too early (that said it is after release day) or Unity just gave me a massive downgrade in user experience...Despite cited Unity usability improvements my experience here is actually worse than 11.04.
Nothing is configurable without installing extra packages which will be hopelessly confusing for new users...Without installing the gnome tweaks panel and ccsm and short of dipping into gconf there are literally no configuration options. Even then some stuff just seems to be set in stone the behaviour of the "Dash" thing for example.
I want to default to opening on the Applications view not the Shortcuts one with the Shortcuts you don't even seem to be able to define yourself.
The only positive things I can say are that it does look pretty (on compiz capable hardware..not tried it in fallback mode) and everything seems to work well with a dark theme which is something I have often struggled with.
On top of everything else due to a problem the new kernel is having correctly throttling my Core i7 I seem to suffer about 20% performance loss if I boot the 3.0.x kernel.
Looks like the entire household may have to go minty.
Yeh currently booting a few options in VM's to see if it is time for a switch, LMDE is one of them.