Am Dienstag, den 04.01.2011, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Christopher Roy Bratusek: > > 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? > > *that* would be a kick-ass to step back from "We force you to use Mutter, > when > you're going to use GNOME-Shell" attitude. I've been following the > discussions > from users point of view and lots (and I mean it) have complained about > having > to use Mutter in favour of their current WM. > I agree with you. In the last years, I've learned to appreciate GNOME because of its modularity, which doesn't preclude integrity. Nowadays it is still possible to drive a system with Openbox instead of Metacity and without Nautilus at all. In fact, GNOME is built on top of a basic gnome-session. If it switches completely to mutter/gnome-shell or any other thing which forces the user to use that and nothing else, we end up in a desktop which is as strong bolted as Windows or MacOSX and get a considerable part of the "freedom of choice" lost. If this ever really happens, I will turn away from GNOME, I'm sure.
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