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What's wrong with installing xfce? It's only an apt-get away.

But I've grown use to Gnome apps and applets. I especially like the multi-tabbed terminal.

XFCE's terminal can do it too. And you can use Gnome applets.

Thanks! Good to know. I've used xfce some years ago.

You can use gnome-terminal within XFCE just the same as I can use xfce4-terminal from within GNOME.

What's wrong with selecting "Gnome" as a desktop rather than Unity when logging in? It's literally 2 clicks to change.

Have you tried Ubuntu 11.10? Where are those 2 clicks?

The 2 clicks is the tools icon right next to Username on the login screen.

My fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 has exactly two entries in that menu...

Unity Unity 2d

You can install other desktop packages from the repositories of course.

...and you get something entirely broken! Really, have you tried your own advice?

Sounds good but it will lose support in a year or so. And you cant forget about new apps without difficulty.