hi; On 23 October 2012 14:05, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 October 2012 04:20, Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 23 October 2012 07:30, Lanoxx <[email protected]> wrote: >>> IMHO we should try our best keep gnome-panel alive for at least a few >>> more years. >> >> there seems to be some confusion, here. >> >> removing the fallback mode in GNOME does *not* imply removing >> gnome-panel and metacity git repositories. what removing the fallback >> mode means is removing them from the release moduleset, as well as not >> trying to keep those modules up with the UX changes (an already >> arduous task as it is). >> >> if people want to keep maintaining those two projects for the people >> that prefer running them, they are *very* much welcome to do so — >> something that has been said multiple times already. > > I believe it's quite a bit more than that. Dropping fallback mode > means ripping out the support code from > gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-control-center/etc. for the classic > desktop making it impossible to run with GNOME 3.8 or 3.10 or whenever > that happens. The tracking bug for that is > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/682858
that is not entirely correct: you can still create a user session running gnome-panel and metacity. the code to be removed would be the switch inside gnome-control-center that allows you to forcibly go in fallback mode; we still need code to detect whether or not your machine is going to be able to run the GNOME UX. obviously, whoever ends up maintaining those two components will have to keep up with the settings and session changes, but that's generally to be expected (and that's why I said "as well as not trying to keep those modules up with the UX changes"). in short: dropping metacity and gnome-panel from the release means finding maintainers — exactly like keeping them, to be honest, but the former option allows others to share the burden. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
