[Yaa101]

I am a Gnome user and I am not at all impressed, I liked Gnome because there was 1 way to do a certain task, now they gone the windows way of being able to do the task at many places, that is confusing and complicated. Gnome was simple but complete, but I guess fashion is more important than satisfied users, just like windows and OSX. I am not looking forward to the next fad.

Anybody knows a simple and consistant and complete desktop that I can use when Gnome got screwed?

B.T.W. I expect negative mod points for being viewed as nagger, but it is how I feel about this Gnome route.

[petercooper]

Try xfce. It's based on GNOME technologies but is leaner and more minimal. It's often used for low spec machines but is great if you just want a super fast desktop environment that's not too alien/weird.

[dkarl]

It's built on GTK+ but doesn't depend on GNOME.

Xfce is where I am now thanks to KDE4. If KDE4 and GNOME3 are big boosts to Xfce, I hope Linux desktop developers take the right lesson from that. If they want to keep "revolutionizing" things, they had better give us a good reason to put up with the learning curve and the sudden nosedive in usability and polish.

[pyre]

  > It's built on GTK+ but doesn't depend on GNOME.

IIRC, it still uses gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager, etc. Lots of the GNOME background processes are in use, unless they've recently weaned themselves...

[makmanalp]

Even though the simplicity was gnome's mantra, I think xfce did a better job of it ironically.

[alexkay]

gnome-shell is just a window manager which replaces metacity. You can continue using GNOME with another window manager. I personally use xmonad with GNOME and won't trade it for anything else.