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I'm still using gnome 2 with Unity on Ubuntu 16 ESM while Gnome 3+ has no future on my notebooks. Never thought that Gnome 2's LaF is Windows-y; if anything, it
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
I'm still using gnome 2 with Unity on Ubuntu 16 ESM while Gnome 3+ has no future on my notebooks. Never thought that Gnome 2's LaF is Windows-y; if anything, it looks more like Mac Os, with global menu and minimal window decorations. I always thought Gnome devs wanted to jump onto the tablet bandwagon (or simply wanted to try out something different and non-WIMPy), but failed hard.
- lproven 4y agoI wrote the article. I do not understand your points here. GNOME 2 does not have global menus. GNOME 2 did not have minimal window decorations, with separate min./max/close/menu buttons. GNOME 2 (and MATE) does have: * a taskbar with iconic buttons for windows (a Win95 innovation); * a hierarchical app-launch menu (a Win95 innovation); * a system tray with the clock and status icons at the opposite end of the panel from the app-launch menus (a Win95 refinement of a MacOS feature). And so on. I think you're remembering wrongly or are confusing different GNOME versions.