Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks <at> gmail.com> writes:
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The best thing Fedora can do is what it is doing - putting Gnome 3 out
there so that the Linux community can try it out and provide feedback
to the Gnome community. Gnome can then decide if they need to change
course or keep moving in their current direction.
...
I read that:
"GNOME is more than its shell, and the rest of GNOME 3 is a clear update and
refresh versus GNOME 2, and very similar to GNOME 1 vs GNOME 2."
OK.
There is something called "escape forward".
I have a proposal to GNOME project and to Red Hat/Fedora as well.
Let's take the best from GNOME 2, its GUI, and put it on top of GNOME 3
infrastructure (without GNOME 3 Shell).
They can release the new product as GNOME 3 Classic.
It will be a gesture to a proven-and-tested standard GUI of GNOME 2, and it
will offer all the "below-the-hood" improvements (speed, responsiveness,
extensions, etc) of GNOME 3.
It will offer peace of mind to current and future customer base of Linux and
UNIX OSs/distros.
It will be an instant hit and ensure GNOME's proper place in DE space.
They may offer current GNOME 3 with its Shell as well, as a separate product,
if they wish.
JB