In fairness to XFCE, I haven’t taken the time to really try and configure it the way I want, but for my day to day use, I find Mate to be the best of the bunch.
Call me crazy, but I just like being able to make things the way I want them and have them work in a logical manner. This stuff with Unity and Gnome 3 where I’m supposed to up and change everything about my workflow to suit some developers idea of how a ‘paradigm change’ should be implemented, is pure idiocy.
My desktop is not a tablet. My desktop is not a phone. My desktop is not a laptop. My desktop is not Scott Baio. My desktop is MY DESKTOP. Leave it the hell alone, so I can get my work done and stop putting obstacles in the way of updating my distros because of all of these effing braindead changes! ARGH! /end of rant. :-)
> My desktop is not a tablet. My desktop is not a phone. My
> desktop is not a laptop. My desktop is not Scott Baio. My
> desktop is MY DESKTOP. Leave it the hell alone, so I can
> get my work done and stop putting obstacles in the way of
> updating my distros because of all of these effing
> braindead changes! ARGH! /end of rant. :-)
I share your pain. Really. Don’t like Gnome-3, but the developers have told us to get used to it or go pound sand.
Right--so switch to a DE that will work with your style. You are not stuck with Gnome. Choose something else.