Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

[Eric Smith]

Olav Vitters wrote:
>  It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If
> you
>  want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE. 
I don't want "exact GNOME 2 experience".  But I thought the whole
point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode was to provide something with basically
the same functionality.

>  The classic mode in GNOME
>  3 is using gnome-shell, and I don't think it supports launchers, though
>  IIRC there are extensions which allow you to do that. 
As I understand it, Classic Mode basically is a set of extensions.  If
it's intended to provide functionality similar to Gnome 2, shouldn't
it include the extensions necessary to do that?

Not that it's Fedora's problem, but I wonder what reaction there will
be from RHEL7 customers who have been told that Gnome 3 Classic Mode
will give them a traditional desktop, when they discover that it does
so only very superficially?

Anyhow, I wasn't trying to start another Gnome 3 flame war.  I just
thought that I must be doing something stupid if I couldn't get
Classic Mode to act more or less like Gnome 2.  Obviously what was
stupid was my expectation that it would be similar.

I'll switch back to MATE.

Eric

How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

[Bruce Byfield]

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 08:38:50 PM Eric Smith wrote:
>  Olav Vitters wrote:
>  > It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If you
>  > want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE.
>  
>  I don't want "exact GNOME 2 experience".  But I thought the whole
>  point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode was to provide something with basically
>  the same functionality. 
You can get about 90% of GNOME 2's functionality, as well as some additional 
customization:

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/giving-gnome-3-a-gnome-2-look.html

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How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

>  Olav Vitters wrote:
>  > It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If you
>  > want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE.
>
>  I don't want "exact GNOME 2 experience".  But I thought the whole
>  point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode was to provide something with basically
>  the same functionality.
>  
Not really.  It just provides the overall look and feel.  Not all the
features.

Rahul