You just upgraded your Ubuntu for 11.04 [1], and don’t like the new Unity desktop interface (Fig 1), so you would like to get back to the good old Gnome one (Fig 2), to get back your applets and other things. Or maybe you are not sure for the moment if you should upgrade your Ubuntu or not.

Anyway, do not panic, you can easily, in Ubuntu 11.04, get back to Gnome (Fig 2).

I was personally surprised, after upgrading to 11.04, to loose the most important and usefull parts of my desktop interface, which are the dashboard applets (Fig 3).

But t is so easy to change and get back to the Gnome desktop (Fig 2). You just have to disconnect (Fig 4), if you haven’t already did.

Then, select Ubuntu classic [2] (Fig 5) after you choosed your user on login screen.

You then just have to log in, and will find back your Gnome environment (Fig 2), with your favorite applets (Fig 3) !