Am Montag, den 03.01.2011, 13:37 -0500 schrieb Owen Taylor: > There will also be some people that want to use gnome-panel because > they aren't ready to change. While we want to encourage people who > have capable hardware to update and use the new experience, there > are multiple advantages to accommodating such users in fallback > mode as well rather than telling them to use GNOME 2.
Im afraid we will have a lot of more people who use the "fallback mode" or "classic mode" than the new desktop shell. Keep in mind, a Linux or BSD distribution will be installed on older hardware in many cases, because the newest Windows doesn't run properly anymore. On my five years old IBM Thinkpad T41 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 I cannot use gnome-shell. Only black windows... On the other hand, Compiz with most of its nice features works fine. That's why we *must* provide an appropriate clutter-less fallback mode for the GNOME 3 lifecycle (yes, for the whole cycle!). What about to have a gnome-shell with a fallback mode which works (with function constraints) with the good old metacity or other window managers? And keeping gnome-applets as gnome-shell-applets? Otherwise, we will get rid of a lot of users. >From the current point of view, the GNOME v3.0 desktop seems to become no more than a kind of technology preview with a lot of gaps. In fact, a disaster for the user, like KDE 4.0, in comparison with the stable and mature GNOME 2. What's the function of version numbers, actually...? It's odd to ship such an almost unusable stuff and mark it as stable, referring to future versions which will probably fix the problems. Here I speak about the goal to make the gnome-shell including clutter the centre of all development efforts, not about the other new parts such as gsettings, new docs appearance, gtkbuilder and many more. I'm afraid that the users won't honour the "gnomeshellmania". Cheers, Mario _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
