Date: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 17:16:55 +0000 From: Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole@gmail.com
On 2016-03-08, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2016-03-07, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
Weird. There seems to be quite a bit of software missing from C7.2, gnome-applets being one of them. Or has it been moved or renamed or otherwise obscured?
tia
Since gnome-panel and 'flashback' mode have been removed from GNOME 3, gnome-applets is no longer required or available. Much of the functionality of traditional applets is available by means of extensions to gnome-shell. See the various gnome-shell-extension-* packages.
Thanks, Liam. I checked those out, downloaded a handful of them, and tried some out. But couldn't get any of the functionality out of them that I was looking for. E.g., previously (C5.9) there were nice, little applets to:
- show the current weather; click on for forecasts and weather
maps;
- selecting to paste buffer from several sets of odd characters
and characters and characters from foreign languages;
- icons, clicking on which could fire virtually any executable on
the system;
- "drawers", clicking on which popped an entire column of any of
the above;
- and probably some other things I'm not remembering.
I'm still not finding any of that in C7.2... it's like this "upgrade" is several steps backwards from the functionality in earlier CentOS version. Or am I missing something?
No, many before you have similarly bemoaned the changes made during the transition from GNOME 2 to 3. I suggest you take a look around the extensions website[1] for extensions which restore the missing functionality. Use gnome-tweak-tool to install and remove extensions. They can be a bit hit-and-miss when it comes to compatibility with the particular version of gnome-shell you are running.
Have you looked at Mate, available from epel? It will bring back (much of) the feel of gnome-2. You'll be able to select between the two at login.