From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318737037.3048.6.camel@YAAKOV04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111013142931.GA22453@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 16:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 13 10:01, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > I only hope Gnome/Fedora/Red Hat doesn't remove the old start menu
> > entirely from the OS. The new GUI which is supposed to replace the
> > start menu is only useful for tablets and playing, but not for serious
> > work, IMO.
> >
> >
> > I only hope Ubuntu doesn't remove the old start menu entirely from the
> > OS. The new GUI which is supposed to replace the start menu is only
> > useful for tablets and playing, but not for serious work, IMO.
> >
> >
> > Somebody PLEASE tell these people that not EVERYTHING is going to become
> > a tablet!!!
>
> That's why I'm using Xfce4, not Gnome 3. If Xfce5 goes the same route,
> there's still LXDE. So far.
The classic GNOME panel interface is still available in 3.x:
System Settings -> System Info -> Graphics -> Forced Fallback Mode : ON.
I use it on a daily basis on Cygwin/X, since gnome-shell requires
hardware acceleration, which we don't have yet in desktop mode.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-16 3:50 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de>
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2011-10-13 14:02 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-13 14:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-13 19:38 ` David Sastre
2011-10-16 3:50 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
2011-10-13 14:33 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 14:48 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 14:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-13 14:54 ` Danilo Turina
2011-10-13 15:20 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 15:27 ` Danilo Turina
2011-10-13 15:21 ` David Eisner
2011-10-13 15:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
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