Pondering the future of the Gnome classic session beyond Ubuntu Precise

[kansasnoob]

And beginning with Quantal the "footprint" for 'gnome-tweak-tool' is quite small:

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
[sudo] password for lance: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gnome-shell-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gnome-shell-common
  gnome-tweak-tool
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 988 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,625 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Whereas in Precise the footprint was quite large:

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
[sudo] password for lance: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libjpeg-turbo-progs libgle3 libjpeg-progs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
  gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-folks-0.6
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gee-1.0 gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
  gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0
  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0
  gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gjs gnome-contacts gnome-icon-theme-full gnome-shell
  gnome-shell-common gnome-themes-standard libcaribou-common libcaribou0
  libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common libcogl-pango0
  libcogl9 libgjs0c libmozjs185-1.0 libmutter0 mutter-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
  gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-folks-0.6
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gee-1.0 gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
  gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0
  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0
  gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gjs gnome-contacts gnome-icon-theme-full gnome-shell
  gnome-shell-common gnome-themes-standard gnome-tweak-tool libcaribou-common
  libcaribou0 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common
  libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libgjs0c libmozjs185-1.0 libmutter0 mutter-common
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 38.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.

That makes installing and using 'gnome-tweak-tool' a quite viable option