On Saturday, April 21, 2012 04:28:30 PM Allison Randal wrote: > On 04/21/2012 03:33 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Ubuntu Classic would be a better name for the session, because it looks > > more like a GNOME 2 environment from Ubuntu than like an untouched GNOME > > environment. The GNOME Classic session uses the indicators and the > > notify-osd from Ubuntu. > > There's a distinction here between essential functional changes to allow > GNOME Panel to integrate with applications and system internals on > Ubuntu, and appearance changes to make it "look more like GNOME 2". > > I'm in favor of the first, and not the second. But, I've said enough, > time for others to comment.
I don't know how this works in Gnome, but I think if this were KDE, I think everything Benjamin is looking for could be accomplished with an alternate meta package and a settings package. Personally, I agree with the idea of minimizing changes from upstream as that's been the perspective in Kubuntu, but Ubuntu heavily customized Gnome(2) long before Unity showed up. I suspect there are two different camps that are trying to make use of the classic session: 1. Wants something more like Gnome 2 on Ubuntu used to be. 2. Wants a more pure upstream Gnome 3 (with this as a fallback mechansim) Unless patches to the core packages are required, I would think that if there is a community of interested developers, supporting both shouldn't be very hard if it's worked out properly. If there are interested people, I think this would be a good UDS topic. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
