GNOME2 support revisited

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 08:42:01 UTC 2011


On 01/12/11 19:49, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Now that MINT has both a GNOME2 port and ax extension (plugin, whatever) for
> GNOME3 to make it usable without user retraining, will these features be
> available in Fedora17, or has the move to kill GNOME2 become a holy war.

I don't believe the Fedora maintainers, will do that.
Without more support from community devs,
who would do it as a side project.

>
> We support RHEL6 installations, and in addition to training time and application
> (re)development costs, people complain that switching between GUI hurts
> productivity, creates typos, etc, etc. People spend time whining about it, that
> definitely hurts productivity.
>

It depends on RH, and how many of their enterprise subscribers feel.
Make your feelings known to them?


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Frank Murphy
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