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This gave me flashbacks to Gnome 2 and how much I loved it.

unixhero 7y ago
That is the idea!
giancarlostoro 7y ago
Weirdly enough I loved Gnome 2 but for whatever odd reason I prefer some of the other DE's out there. I use Budgie (on Ubuntu) at work though it has quirks, otherwise Gnome 3 is ok or I just go for KDE. It definitely felt like Gnome went from all these amazing customizations to being so limited though.
p1necone 7y ago
After Gnome 3 and the abomination of wasted screen real estate that was Unity released I switched to using XFCE on Linux environments and haven't really found anything better since. It's so snappy even on crappy hardware and is customizable enough.
- thepangolino 7y ago
  I actually liked unity. Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter. The HUD(?) was a great concept allowing easy Dutch within an apps menus.
  - p1necone 7y ago
    My problem was with the size of all the UI elements, it seemed to me that a lot of it was designed with a "touch first, M+K second" focus.
    - Niccizero 7y ago
      That's probably Gnome, Ubuntu was pretty manegeable as a KB+M desktop. I'd say it's as KB+M oriented as OS X. Gnome is more like the Ipad OS.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    > Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter. That's hardly innovation though since most DEs over the past 2+ decades that I can think of would let you move the taskbar (if they had one) anyway.
    - Sharlin 7y ago
      Indeed even Windows 95 let you do that.
  - IshKebab 7y ago
    I agree - taskbar on the side is the best layout. It's very common on Macs and you can do it in Windows 10 now too. The problem with Unity was that it was buggy as hell, and the launcher was really badly styled. Huge gaps between icons, the search filter was unusable, etc.
zapzupnz 7y ago
I was always a KDE 3 kinda guy. I tried TDE, which is to KDE 3 as Mate is to GNOME 2, and … boy, you really appreciate how the Mate project managed to keep everything good about GNOME 2 but modernise at the same time.

That is the idea!

Weirdly enough I loved Gnome 2 but for whatever odd reason I prefer some of the other DE's out there. I use Budgie (on Ubuntu) at work though it has quirks, otherwise Gnome 3 is ok or I just go for KDE. It definitely felt like Gnome went from all these amazing customizations to being so limited though.

p1necone 7y ago

After Gnome 3 and the abomination of wasted screen real estate that was Unity released I switched to using XFCE on Linux environments and haven't really found anything better since. It's so snappy even on crappy hardware and is customizable enough.

thepangolino 7y ago
I actually liked unity. Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter. The HUD(?) was a great concept allowing easy Dutch within an apps menus.
- p1necone 7y ago
  My problem was with the size of all the UI elements, it seemed to me that a lot of it was designed with a "touch first, M+K second" focus.
  - Niccizero 7y ago
    That's probably Gnome, Ubuntu was pretty manegeable as a KB+M desktop. I'd say it's as KB+M oriented as OS X. Gnome is more like the Ipad OS.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  > Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter. That's hardly innovation though since most DEs over the past 2+ decades that I can think of would let you move the taskbar (if they had one) anyway.
  - Sharlin 7y ago
    Indeed even Windows 95 let you do that.
- IshKebab 7y ago
  I agree - taskbar on the side is the best layout. It's very common on Macs and you can do it in Windows 10 now too. The problem with Unity was that it was buggy as hell, and the launcher was really badly styled. Huge gaps between icons, the search filter was unusable, etc.

zapzupnz 7y ago

I was always a KDE 3 kinda guy. I tried TDE, which is to KDE 3 as Mate is to GNOME 2, and … boy, you really appreciate how the Mate project managed to keep everything good about GNOME 2 but modernise at the same time.