There was a gnome2 fork - but the developer went AWOL. :( And I can't remember the site, so I can't verify if he's back (this was about 2-3 months ago)
Cheers, James Gifford On Aug 4, 2011, at 18:45, Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacob Peddicord wrote: > >> My thoughts exactly. Remember KDE 4? There's still a thriving >> community around it, even after the months of complaints from various >> users and figureheads. >> >> Change is happening, and if you don't like it, you don't have to >> accept it -- just pick another desktop environment/window >> manager/browser/whatever. You have the freedom to choose what you want >> to use. >> >> Personally, I use Unity on the desktop and love it, but on my netbook >> I've got LXDE (Lubuntu) just because I like it more on my netbook. >> I've got no arguments to convince anyone to use either of those >> systems, I just know that they work well for me. > > The important thing is that innovation is happening! GNOME 3 is > targeted toward tablets, so it isn't surprising that it doesn't work > as well (for some people) for existing computing tasks. Anyway, > options are simply good. One person's particular preferences aren't > really that significant; although in this case, they may make the > GNOME people try harder to fix the usability problems they've now > created, which in the end is a very good thing. > > As an aside, I think a GNOME 2 fork would actually be interesting. > Keep the competition alive. > > Gilbert > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
