Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:58:51PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:05 +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I made some noises on IRC about people upgrading to F15 (like myself)
> > who would all come across the same surprises and would have to find a
> > way to work around them. I suggested it might help to publish
> > something like release notes but more user oriented, to help to ease
> > the pain (and to defuse the many questions that will undoubtedly find
> > their way to the various support forums). At the time no-one seemed to
> > pick up on the idea.
> > 
> > I wrote a blog post about it, maybe not the best way to help Fedora
> > users so feel free to take the idea and the content and repackage it
> > as appropriate.
> > 
> > http://littlethorpe.net/wordpress/?p=334 "Fedora 15 Gnome 3 gotchas"
> > 
> > If nothing else maybe I have included the right words so that users
> > can Google for 'what the heck happened to my minimise button' or
> > whatever and find some help.
> 
> Gnome 3 is a usability disaster. It added some useful things, yes,
> but it also REMOVED some useful things - what a hell!?
> Since when is that a valid development practice?
> Do we hate our users or what?

# yum install @XFCE

Then, log out and at the log in window select "XFCE 4" as the session.

Rich.

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