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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Seems to me things would work out better
if the Gnome developers would write code for a computer without a
touch screen and separate code for one with. Then let the user
decide which one they want. If this were done, both could be
included in the iso file for the installation media. Then while
you're installing, you're asked if you want the version that
supports a touchscreen or the version that does not.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/30/2013 01:45 PM, JD Austin
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I know... I HATE IT. Every time my mouse hits the edge my
desktop flies away. It only makes sense if you're using a
touch screen device AND I'M NOT. So.. bye bye
gnome/unity/etc.. hello Cinnamon/KDE.<br>
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<div>-- JD Austin<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Ed <span
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<div class="h5">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, JD
Austin <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Paul Mooring <<a
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>> That being said, you're right just switching
distros for the desktop<br>
>> environment wouldn't make a whole lot of since,
but things like apt (and<br>
>> it's overly opinionated packages) and upstart
are too integral to the OS to<br>
>> make using alternatives not a huge pain.<br>
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> I remember when I first switched from Slackware
(everything complied from<br>
> source) to Redhat... all of their changes
infuriated me; especially changes<br>
> to the boot process which resulted in a machine
that wouldn't boot when I<br>
> rebuilt the kernel the 'Slackware way'. I
eventually got used to Redhat's<br>
> way and have a love hate relationship with RPM/yum.
I used Debian for a<br>
> long time too and liked apt-get over yum for a long
time. Ubuntu's changes<br>
> are about as annoying to me as Redhat's were.
Apt-get/yum are about<br>
> equivalent and both can get you into dependency
hell but they work for the<br>
> most part.<br>
><br>
> I haven't liked the changes in Fedora with Gnome
lately either... switched<br>
> my desktop to cinnamon instead. I want my start
menu and virtual<br>
> desktops... I don't want a desktop that wants to be
a tablet.<br>
><br>
> JD<br>
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> -- JD Austin<br>
> Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek)<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Hi JD - Fedora/Gnome3 has virtual desktops - wheel-o-fortune
style.<br>
The menus just got their own desktop (The Activities
Overview), they<br>
didn't go away. That said, the " ready for touch" parts of
Gnome3 can<br>
be a PITA when mousing around, and the devs are definitely
driving<br>
their own magic bus - but, if you hang in there you might
notice how<br>
the whole desktop experience is compressed and your apps
forced into<br>
the foreground.<br>
<br>
This really starts once you get the keyboard commands into
muscle<br>
memory. One thing I did notice was a definite loss of
overall,<br>
multi-Vdesktop context until I realized it was right there
on The<br>
Activities Overview - that was right after I began launching
apps via<br>
search. Press the meta/windows key, start to spell your app
or it's<br>
function and it is there in your search results - if you did
this<br>
before, it learns and sorts your app as the first one - just
hit enter<br>
-> you and it open on a new virtual desktop (or you can
direct it to<br>
open on a specific one if you wish) ready to go.
meta,c,h,enter and<br>
chromium opens<br>
<br>
After some immersion therapy, as desktops go, Gnome3 really
gets out<br>
of your way - almost as nice as i3<br>
<br>
Happy Hunting - Ed<br>
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