<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:01, Bill Nottingham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:notting@redhat.com">notting@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Rahul Sundaram (<a href="mailto:metherid@gmail.com">metherid@gmail.com</a>) said:<br>
> > But it doesn't make any sense. gnome-panel does *not* require<br>
> > gnome-shell. We really shouldn't just go around abusing dependencies to<br>
> > make upgrades 'work', even if it is convenient.<br>
><br>
> I think users upgrading from a previous release can continue to get the<br>
> fallback mode unless they do a group installation or try to install<br>
> GNOME Shell specifically.<br>
<br>
</div>How so? When we included KDE 4, we didn't leave users on KDE 3 on<br>
upgrade.<br>
<br>
Similarly, when a user has GNOME installed (and yes, the gnome-panel<br>
is GNOME), and they upgrade, they'll get the current version of GNOME.<br>
And that's GNOME Shell.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thank you for repeating this. It appears to not be common knowledge--in this conversation--that gnome-panel is deprecated and, essentially, in deep maintenance mode. GNOME Shell is the UI of GNOME 3 and you only land on the fallback gnome-panel if your hardware doesn't support it or, if the detection logic doesn't guess your hardware correctly, you force GNOME in to fallback mode (modulo this UI being created before the release).<br>
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