Gnome 3.8 classic mode in RHEL 7

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I'm a day-to-day user of RHEL 6 desktop, looking to upgrade to RHEL 7 when the time comes.

I recently tried out Fedora 18, treating it as a preview of sorts for RHEL 7. While the new Gnome interface (v3.6) is visually appealing at first, I found it to be rather confusing to use (annoying to be honest). I've tried the "fallback mode" for a more traditional feel, but it seems that it has less features than the current Gnome 2.28 interface in RHEL 6.

Searching on the web about the direction of the Gnome 3 interface resulted in the following blog, made by a Gnome developer:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/01/25/gnome-3-7-at-the-halfway-mark/

In the above blog entry there is a mention of "classic mode" which is going to replace the fallback mode in Gnome v3.8.

The classic mode in Gnome v3.8 looks less challenging to use than the current default Gnome v3.6 setup, and it appears to be closer to Gnome 2. Given this, it would be very useful to have the classic mode in RHEL 7.

 

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