Restoring the old gnome desktop

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:28 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/11/2012 11:15 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>> A bit cumbersome, but can be done:
>>
>> First, of course, you have to install gnome-system-tools because Unity
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>> doesn't offer a single GUI app to manage groups. (Or does it?).
>> Then you open dash, click "Search App"  icon below,
>
> Of course one would need to know which is the 'Search App' icon...

> (for the GNOME2 & other ill informed:
> it is the one to the right of the
> little house on the prairie box - the one that is supposed to look like
> a ruler, crayon, and candle?)

LOL - It's really amazing we have to resort to descriptions like this
for lack of a proper legend. When first posted I ran into the same
problem: "What the heck is this?"

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> No. You need an internet connection & good folks like you to tell a user
> how to do the simplest of tasks from the GNOME2 desktop (by adding a
> non-standard utility from the 'Universe' respository to start). IMO it's
> pretty pathetic that users now have to fumble around wasting time
> finding workarounds & installing Universe packages and/or plugins,
> simply to accomplish a previous basic, simple, task.
>
> Thanks

Glad to hear from you, Gary.

Lucio

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