Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/28/2011 01:18 AM, John Morris wrote:
> Well it is time to choose because the old default choice is dead.
> Because GNOME3 bears almost no relation to GNOME2 so calling it an
> 'upgrade' needs a magic marker taken to the dictionary first

Depends on what you look at and your perspective.   Is Python 3 a
upgrade?  Is Perl 6 a upgrade?  GTK 3.0 clearly is a incremental update
to GTK 2.x and a lot of applications are just the same ones with minor
changes.  Everything from Gedit to nautilus to Evolution and so on.  
GNOME Shell is certainly different as far as a UI goes but it is build
on things like Clutter which have a clear GNOME basis to it.  The window
manager is a port of Metacity to Clutter    You call it tablet oriented
but I dont think the UI will  work well on a tablet and GNOME developers
haven't targeted it towards tablets either.   If you want to use a
different DE or WM, go ahead.  That is a different discussion from a
distribution default. 

Rahul