On 11/09/2012 11:27 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: >> Good morning/afternoon/evening. > >> That said, I won't maintain GNOME in the book and if you ask me, you can >> drop it completely. In BLFS we don't tend to force users to do something >> and keeping GNOME would force (some) users to use mesa with llvm for >> llvmpipe in order to use GNOME. >> >> There is 3.6.2 release comming and that would be last revision regarding >> GNOME from me. > > I understand where you are coming from. I gave up on GNOME some time > ago when I was just installing and testing one of the commercial > distros. I also had an issue with the KDE window manager, but like > their applications. My solution is to build KDE and XFCE and run the > KDE apps in XFCE. Works fine. > > As far as dropping it from the book, I'm not so sure. I think we have a > decent snapshot and can leave it alone without either upgrading or > dropping it. A note at the start would explain our position. > > One thing I'd like to point out is that a lot of people really didn't > like KDE4 when it first came out. It took a couple of years to get it > into reasonable shape. Perhaps that will happen to GNOME. > > -- Bruce >
As someone said, GNOME isn't a desktop, it is a research project. I wasn't using KDE till this year, but it seems that they are going and still go in correct direction - listening to the users (at least up to some point). And as I've read somewhere, GNOME 3.10 or 3.12 might actualy become GNOME 4 and it will be used for GNOME OS - an operating system mostly for touch devices. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
