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Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:50:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step
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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