Restoring the old gnome desktop

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:08 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 04:23 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 3 May 2012 05:24, Art Edwards <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> I'm sure this is very honestly given advice that might be very helpful,
>>> but isn't it a little ironic that, for such an intuitive environment,
>>> Unity needs a wallpaper with hints?
>>
>> No, not at all. See my reply to Albert Wagner.
>>
>> Unity has a lot more keystrokes enabled by default than did GNOME 2,
>
> Indeed it does. in fact Ubuntu 12.04 *requires* that you have two
> working hands, digits, and arms in order to use all of these fine
> 'keystrokes' and perform the same function that could be performed by a
> person with one hand and a mouse. Here's an example:
>
>  On GNOME2/Natty & below to modify/add a user to a group all you needed
> to do was click System|Administration|Users and Groups|Manage
> Groups|click on the group you want & select 'Edit'|click the user you
> want to add & click 'OK' - done. Try the same with 12.04...
>
> Nevermind, you'll end up doing it directly from the terminal:
> <http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/quickly-add-users-to-groups-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/>
> Now I suppose that you *might* be able to do that with a single hand,
> but I wouldn't like to try.
>
> Granted the mouse operation does take quite a few clicks, but at least
> you can do it with one hand.

A bit cumbersome, but can be done:

First, of course, you have to install gnome-system-tools because Unity
doesn't offer a single GUI app to manage groups. (Or does it?).
Then you open dash, click "Search App"  icon below, then "Filter
Results", then "System". In my system I get six matches, one of then
Gnome's old and reliable "Users and Groups".

Extremely intuitive if you know exactly what to look for and how...

L.

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Implementation
System and Applications
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