F15 and GNOME 3

[JB]

Genes MailLists <lists <at> sapience.com> writes:

> ... 
>   [JB gnome 2 is dead - so please stop asking for it here .. its not an
> option - fedora follows gnome - and the current version is 3 or will be
> soon - if you have a beef with 2 versus 3, adam and johann are righ -
> take it to gnome dev]

I have posted to GNOME Shell dev list.

Just came first response:
"Free Software World is vast, if you want a "conservative desktop", look
at XFCE."

Well, let's wait for more responses ... :-)

Regarding GNOME 3.
I actually have been a user of GNOME for long time and appreciated its
functionality without the desease of too many features.
I liked the ecosystem of their applications.
I thought it was too slow/unresponsive.

So, I welcomed GNOME 3 as a natural progress and expected it to deliver new
architecture (that what their devs were also excited about) that would cure
some of that sluggishness, among others.
As I said I found the desktop very responsive, lacking at this stage the usual
fat (that will come with time any way, hopefully not too soon ...).
But I did not expect the obvious screwup with the menu system - you would think
it would be impossible from a bunch of devs who delivered by now a mature
DE like GNOME 2).
I hope they reflect and change that part - it should be easy and not affecting
the underlying architecture, as the one "misdeveloped" menu system already
exists, but in the wrong place and misconstrued.
I am hopeful.

Second response just came in:
" ...
Your arguments about RHEL desktop issue are a bit strange to me regarding
that most gnome-shell developers and designers are employeed by Red Hat. I
am not saying that Red Hat management has a big influence on the design
but I am sure that they wouldn't sponser it that much if they didn't like
it at all.
...
"
So far they are easy on me - I was afraid somewhat that they would go to get
a rope :-)

> ...
>   So if someone has constructive suggestions of an alternative to Gnome
> 3 - that should be fair game ...
> 
>   But you'd be targetting F16 at this stage of the game ... I would imagine.
> ...

As you know the movement already started on Fedora users list. But it is too
early to jump ship ... We shoud try to fight it out first :-)

JB