[PLUG] Promising GNOME Shell tweaks.

[Joshua Lock]

On 7 November 2011 11:54, Matt McKenzie <lnxknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:20 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:34:14 -0800
>> Scott Garman <sgarman at zenlinux.com> dijo:
>>
>> >So I dunno if any of you care much for GNOME Shell, but I tried it for
>> >a couple of weeks and had to give it up (switched to XFCE). However, a
>> >co-worker of mine recently pointed me to a Linux Mint announcement
>> >that they will be addressing nearly all of my issues with GNOME Shell
>> >with some custom extensions.
>> >
>> >http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851
>> >
>> >I'm really looking forward to trying this out when it is released!
>>
>> It was not clear to me from the article if the new shell options will
>> be available to all users of Gnome 3, or just users of Gnome 3 on Mint
>> 12.
>>
>>
> >From my reading of it, it seems like it is a feature of Linux Mint 12.
> One would hope they would open source these additions and make them
> available upstream (at least to Ubuntu, if not any GNOME using distro).

https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE

> It sounds like a good idea to me.  I didn't see mention of it, but would
> hope there are also options to add back in some more control options, GNOME
> 3 control panel looks desolate compared to GNOME 2.  I agree with the main
> point of simplifying things for new users, but at the expense of power
> users being able to tweak things (power users which still make up a large
> percentage of Linux users) I disagree with.  A setting somewhere that says
> "I know what I'm doing, give me options dagnabbit" would have been welcome.

Have you tried the gnome-tweak-tools program?

Usually there are more options under the hood that you can toggle with
the gconf/dconf editor.

Joshua
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Joshua Lock