The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

[Scott Doty]

On 12/04/2011 01:40 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 12/03/2011 09:40 AM, JB wrote:
>> Even with a total rewrite of GNOME code base, they could choose to offer
>> GNOME2-like GUI on top of it as a still *default* DE in Fedora, while
> If you chose the 'Forced Fallback Mode' in 'System info' you will get
> something that resembles Gnome2 (Gnome3 with metacity). So the
> Gnome2-like GUI is there, but very well hidden.
>
> Lars

But this resembles an _unconfigured_ gnome2 installation -- all of the 
buttons, drawers, and widgets from Gnome 2's gnome-panel are lost.

I really wish people would stop trying to put lipstick on the fallback 
mode -- just tell folks to move to kde, or xfce.

  -Scott