2011/6/7 Olav Vitters <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:48:55AM +0200, Thomas Lottmann wrote: >> On the other hand, I'd like to still have the possibility to keep >> and install Gnome 2.xx in the future, as Gnome 3 isn't both stable >> and reliable and complete yet. > > GNOME 2.x is not needed, there is the fallback mode in GNOME3; it'll > give you a gnome-panel and so on. The default layout looks like > GNOME-shell, but it just is a newer gnome-panel.
The graphics is not such a big issue, as you stated, the user can always use the fallback mode. My personal killer of Gnome3 is the switch from normal editable configuration files to a kind of registry, to be edited with a special editor. This is a no-go. Normal text files for configuration is one of the common basics of Linux (and most *nix based systems). Each rescue system, be it as small as possible comes with a text editor (I've never seen any system without vi) to edit configuration files and thus mend a broken system. This will not be possible with Gnome3. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was what the Gnome people told me in Berlin. -- wobo
