[CentOS] no gnome-applets in C7.2

[Richard]

> Date: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 17:16:55 +0000
> From: Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>
>
> On 2016-03-08, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
>> On 03/08/2016 06:49 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>>> On 2016-03-07, ken <gebser at 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.
> 
> 1: https://extensions.gnome.org/

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.