In Debian Gnome you use either system-settings or tweak-tool to change those sorts of things. First off I didn't like the 'standardisation' myself, but after a while you get a better feel for commonality being a good thing.Moat wrote:Just tried the new Ubuntu Gnome 17.04, released today. Ugg. USB live session, and Wifi detected but wouldn't connect. Fail!
I don't at all "get" Gnome 3 - everything is so "dumbed down" - too-big icons/titlebars
Windows/special key then type the first letter or two of what you want to run, Windows/te for instance will show the Terminal icon.clumsy finding/accessing applications via the dash/menu/launcher/whatever
If you go into tweak-tool you can add additional extensions by downloading .zip files and installing those. I added one to make the top left hot corner with less resistance. I also added a bottom panel as mouse down and continued at the bottom centre of the screen wasn't to my liking.
When you get more used to mouse into top left or press Win key and type t for terminal, L for libre ...etc its quite nice is some ways. I dropped back to using LXDE however as I just have a top of screen panel with my more common apps/program as icons in that ... so even more productive/quicker IMO.
As a common desktop interface gnome is quite good for across a wide range of kit IMO. You can either mostly navigate using just the keyboard, or mostly navigate using the mouse (touch). I think a good way to run it is to open programs you use on different desktops and then mouse into top left corner and pick which one to switch to. In debian they only had a close button on each window and I had to hunt around to find how to add minimise/maximise buttons (in tweak-tool), but only then later 'got-it' about not bothering to minimise windows and instead just switch to another workspace (desktop).
I haven't seen the Ubuntu version so that might be totally different.