From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12811 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2011 03:50:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 12804 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Oct 2011 03:50:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vx0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vx0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:50:36 +0000 Received: by vcbfk13 with SMTP id fk13so2428893vcb.2 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.25.75 with SMTP id a11mr14955515vdg.1.1318737035097; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.200.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cu18sm12959565vdb.12.2011.10.15.20.50.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20111013142931.GA22453@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com> <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E95FC38.1090500@gmail.com> <20111013103332.GA18819@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E96EF3F.5040806@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20111013142931.GA22453@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1318737037.3048.6.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q4/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 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