On Tuesday 18 December 2012 15:23:16 Rob Owens wrote: > It's not clear how long the Gnome folks will continue to support the > Gnome Classic session (which upstream Gnome refers to as Gnome Legacy). > Some people may decide that their own ideals no longer align with the > ideals of the Gnome developers. Decide for yourself if that sounds like > you. If it does, look to other desktop environments or window managers. > > My opinion is that the major desktop environments are always going to be > tempted into following Windows or Apple trends (or at least trying to > compete with them). This will lead to periodic changes in the way > things are done -- we have seen this recently with KDE and Gnome. > > The plain-old window managers are sufficiently different from Windows > and Apple that I feel comfortable stating that the developers are not > interested in keeping up with the current desktop trends. That gives me > high confidence that there won't be many major changes in the way those > window managers work for years to come. But who knows, I could be > wrong!
Long live Mate (and Cinnamon?) and TrinityDE and all who sail in them! :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
