On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:00 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:32 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 à 09:59 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit : > > > kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and > > > GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see > > > the following particular challenges: > > > > Hello, > > > > (You stole my topic! ;-) > > > > Joke aside we should do the GNOME3 and GTK3 transition next cycle to be > > ready for the lts and it's likely to be quite some work. > > Is Getting GNOME3 really worth it? GTK3 maybe for the parts which are > required for Unity.. > > Several caplets have been removed, not just hiding options. (I'm sure > you guys remember the GDM theming removal "issue" :p ) > In GNOME3 even fonts cannot be changed easily. > they are not removed, they are moved to another place, which is gnome-tweak-tool, available in the GNOME3 PPA
> If we removing easy ways > to change a details, Launchpad would be a *very* noisy for us. > I dont think we might even get it in time for our LTS schedule.. > (couldnt find any info regarding that.) > > If we compare the previous 10.04 LTS and what could be 12.04 LTS with > GNOME3(3.0?/3.2?), there could be a lot of feature parity. > Maybe it is better we wait for Gnome3 to mature a bit more before we > jump into it.. > I know you won't believe what I say, coming from a devote GNOME developer/user, but GNOME 3.0 is the best GNOME release ever :-) It's not like 2.0, which was released too early, when lots of apps hadn't been ported. Of course, there are issues, but nothing big as far as I can see from my daily usage of it in the last months. And the plans for 3.2 (which are starting to be discussed, in desktop-devel-list, just in case someone wants to influence) are looking really good (things like integration of online services, for instance) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
