If you use ArchLinux and you miss the old man GNOME 2, you can now return to the experience of the obsolete desktop environment using its most popular fork: MATE.
MATE has been included in the official repositories of ArchLinux, in the Community repositories, so I'm pretty sure it can be installed with the command:
$ sudo pacman -S mate-desktop
Enjoy!
I'll keep my openSUSE + KDE .. GTK is becoming disgusting in addition to swallowing resources: D.
Calling Gnome 2 old and obsolete has hurt me ¬__¬
Sorry my dear, but it is the hard and pure truth. U_U
Don't hurt, Gnome 2 is obsolete, MATE is old and it works very well with all the distro I have tried. Except that exquisite people like Elav like things that are far-fetched and complicated, like KDE, which is a very good desktop but is very clunky, not very organized. Structured people like me like Order. 🙂
Exquisite me? I don't think so, but what can I tell you? After using XFCE for a loooong time, and GNOME, life has shown me that where KDE arrives, everyone else takes off their hats.
I do like gnome 2. It had already taken Arch to have the support for Mate as official. That good.
If Gnome 2 is still better than Gnome 3
I disagree on that "obsolete", I think it is more current than ever and also, it is the most configurable of the desktops. Another one that follows on my list is Xfce, but it has some tedious things that are a bit laborious and not so straightforward to configure. MATE is not obsolete, it is simply one more desktop, among the others. That you don't like it is another matter.
Sorry but I don't agree with you .. The most configurable desktop? Seriously? XFCE is much more configurable than GNOME by far. And it is proven that the "most configurable" is KDE, although for some it seems messy. Whether you like it or not, is another issue 😉
it is as current as Windows xp… LOL!
you have to take migration to Qt seriously
🙁