Fedora 15 Classic gnome option

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:46 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:49:45PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 08:35 +1000, Nathan Delboux wrote:
> > > Does anyone know if the Classic Gnome would become an option to use if
> > > we don't like Gnome 3? or are just used to Gnome classic?
> > > 
> > > I'm all for change and don't really mind which way that Fedora heads
> > > but i heard Ubuntu may have it an option with their Unity interface.
> > > Good to keep the options open
> > 
> > 
> > You're not likely to get much traction for this. The GNOME team doesn't
> > really want to continue supporting the 2.x line. You'll get some bugfix
> > support for it if you're running RHEL or its clones, but I highly doubt
> > that anyone is going to be sufficiently interested to maintain a
> > complete desktop environment that's abandoned by its upstream.
> 
> Sorry?
> 
> We have GNOME fallback in 3.x. The GNOME panel appearance has been
> changed to match the way GNOME shell looks, but 1) you can change that
> and 2) it is maintained. Due to all the platform changes, a few applets
> weren't ported in 3.0, but there will be more applets in 3.2.
> 
> A lot of work has gone into GNOME panel and GNOME applets, totally
> opposite from being abandoned.


I was talking about the actual Gnome 2 desktop environment, not fallback
mode (which if I understand correctly is more of a skin on top of Gnome
3 than an actual feature-for-feature replica of Gnome 2)
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