On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]
> wrote:

> So to summarize: As long as users accept what you want them to, it's ok,
> else
> they might go jump in the lake... Not that other Desktops fullfil users
> wishes
> by 100% but much more than GNOME3 will do.
>
>
I believe Olav has stated that applets will be returning in 3.2.  So why are
you so adamant that they show up in the 3.0?  It was also stated that I
believe that if applets were ported to 3.0 before release time that it would
be considered.

There is not enough resources to do everything, so having a fallback mode
until we can get all the other parts reasonably working to allow more
desktop users to use their older hardware.  Essentially, if people are using
compiz today they should be able to use clutter/gnome shell.  Maybe we can't
all support it now but once 3.0 is out there we can iteratively fix things.
I've already stated the nautilus example.  Nautilus sucked after the 2.0
release... kudos to Alex who patiently heard all the complaints about it and
we were able to fix the underlying glib/vfs issues to speed things up to
what is today.

You are not going to get a 100% functional 3.0 with everything that was
there before.  If it isn't there for you yet, then you'll have to wait.
I've had the wonderful experience of going through the 1.4->2.0 days it took
some years before Gnome 2.0 was something that was awesome.  I would reckon
that around Gnome 2.6 or 2.8 is where things was really coming together.
That was about two years after the initial release.  Good times.. because we
were going through (and still going) on the "it just works" phase driving
all the other parts of the linux eco system to catch up to what desktops
wanted.

sri
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