On Thu, January 8, 2015 10:52 am, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> >> Would the world really be a better place if CDE had never been replaced? >> Me, I’ll take GNOME 3 and all its warts over CDE any day of the week. >> CDE never would have *evolved* to be the equal of GNOME; it had to be >> destroyed to make room. > > But it doesn't matter how pretty Gnome3 is on some other box. I use > remote connections through NX/freenx or x2go exclusively. Gnome3 > won't work that way. And that's typical of the changes. > Let me second you. I for one have fled from Gnome (on my FreeBSD workstation, - once the upgrade made me switch from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3). I need the job done, and want my GUI User Interface be what was perfectly suitable for long time. I do not care of its looks or fanciness of "ultimately different" user experience. Therefore I fled from Gnome to mate. (The decision was made after 2 weeks of frustration of doing in Gnome 3 the work I usually was doing on my workstation) This is just my $0.02 (and note, this is from me, the one who is "not ready to join ipad generation"). Just on a side note: I question intelligence of an attitude that something (that works for some people) has to be destroyed to make room for something else one thinks to be more appropriate. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++