On 23 October 2012 04:20, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 October 2012 07:30, Lanoxx <lan...@gmx.net> wrote: >> IMHO we should try our best keep gnome-panel alive for at least a few >> more years. > > there seems to be some confusion, here. > > removing the fallback mode in GNOME does *not* imply removing > gnome-panel and metacity git repositories. what removing the fallback > mode means is removing them from the release moduleset, as well as not > trying to keep those modules up with the UX changes (an already > arduous task as it is). > > if people want to keep maintaining those two projects for the people > that prefer running them, they are *very* much welcome to do so — > something that has been said multiple times already.
I believe it's quite a bit more than that. Dropping fallback mode means ripping out the support code from gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-control-center/etc. for the classic desktop making it impossible to run with GNOME 3.8 or 3.10 or whenever that happens. The tracking bug for that is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/682858 As Unity currently depends on some of that code, this is a major factor in pushing Ubuntu to ship the previous stable release instead of the latest (in other words, GNOME 3.6 for Ubuntu 13.04). And as currently set up, that means the Ubuntu GNOME Remix will be doing the same. I don't have a problem with dropping gnome-panel & metacity from core to apps but killing it in this way is more controversial. Jeremy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list