I mostly use Cinnamon as a desktop, because it’s better at blocking animation and at enlarging fonts. And because I can motly get my mouse to work in Xorg, and can’t get it to work in Wayland.
I used to use Gnome Classic to check whether some bugs would occur in both desktops.
For the past few months, if I try to log into Gnome Classic, I get Gnome New instead.
I haven’t been able to use Gnome New either way. A lot of Gnome New jumps back and forth between the regular desktop screen and that smaller desktop screen/menu.
I can’t reproduce this behavior on F41 Silverblue.
However, as I see it, GNOME Classic is just a tweaked GNOME desktop, i.e. with the provided system extensions (App Menu, Places Status Indicator, Window List etc) enabled, as well as enabled Maximize/Minimize buttons (can be activated using GNOME Tweaks).
So if it is not an issue with Extensions generally (e.g.being disabled system-wide), you could tweak the GNOME desktop to look like a GNOME Classic one.
It still opens with everything zoomed out, and with a black frame around the edge, as in Gnome New.
I keep getting hit with various animations.
I have Apps and Places menus, but can’t search them.
If I track down settings > Accessibility > Visual, it keeps turning Animation Effects back on.
In addition, I can’t get my mouse to work properly, the scrollbars are too narrow, and some text is too small. The tweaks include some mouse options, but I can’t get the scrolling tweak to work, and a text scaling factor, but by the time that text is large enough to read, other text is too big.
I guess I had somehow lost that extension. I wonder what else I’ve screwed up. I am also going to try just-perfection, but I think the mouse issues, scrollbar issues, font issues, and gtk scrolling bugs mean gnome still won’t work out for me.
