gnome3 - nothing but problems (for me)

[Phil Dobbin]

On 06/05/12 22:50, JD wrote:

> Hi All,
> Without dissing or criticizing gnome3, I must say
> I have nothing but problems with using it.
> For example, selecting the Gnome, or the Classic Gnome
> desktop manager, I can no longer see the desktop in other
> workspaces that I created, except workspace 1.
> Viewing the desktop in a window (as compared on the workspace)
> does not cut it for me...
> Starting apps always start in workspace 1, even though
> I select the app from Applications drop down menu in
> some other workspace.
> I am unable to change the position of the Applications
> toolbar to the left vertical position, and the currently
> running apps toolbar to the right vertical position.
> I am unable to create new gnome launch icons on the
> desktop (or at least, I have not figured out how). Right click
> on desktop has no effect.
> I am unable to add new icons of apps to the menu bar for quick launch.
>
> And finally, on my HW (AMD Athlon64 3200+)) platform,
> the response time with F16 is so horribly slow, that F14 practically
> appeared to respond like lightning - albeit I have had much
> faster response time on older Fedora releases (such as F7 and F8),
> on this same HW.
>
> In short, I think I will have to dump F16, and switch back to
> F14 or switch to a completely different distro that has not switched to
> gnome3.
>
> Thanx for all the good and the bad times :)


Have you tried running in Fallback mode? I find it perfectly usable in 
that mode.

I ran preupgrade today from 15 -> 16 & apart from a twenty minute stall 
at selinux-targeted-policy during the upgrade it went without a hitch & 
16 is far snappier than 15 & boots a lot quicker.

The most surprising thing of all is that the upgrade was carried out on 
an old IBM ThinkPad T42 with 1GB of RAM & in fallback it's flying along 
& I see none of the problems you're describing.

I hope you get it sorted. I did run the KDE Live CD before upgrading but 
decided to stick with Gnome albeit without the visual bells & whistles.

Cheers,

   Phil...