Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:27:36 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

...snip...

> I am not too surprised about GNOME3, but I thought the Fedora
> decision making group were better people than that and would offer
> GNOME2 for some length of time rather than offer no option at all but
> retrain. That might make sense for developers who learn new stuff all
> the time,and hobby users who are just playing or learning, but for
> people using Fedora to do things important to them, there is a huge
> time cost and no gain.

There are two issues with such a option: 

1) It would be a great deal of work to get gnome2 and gnome3 to
co-exist side by side, as they share a lot of things that would need to
be made to work for both. 

2) There are no people (or very few) willing to maintain it. Upstream
is working on gnome3, all the fedora gnome maintainers are working on
gnome3. If a group of interested and qualified folks wanted to work on
providing gnome2 I would think it would be possible, but I know of no
such group. 

The "Fedora decision making group" has no power to hire a team to work
on gnome2. ;) 

kevin
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