On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:03:19 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3. > > Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian.
Exactly. That's an upstream decision (while GNOME 2 is still supported no more enhancements are planned) and keeping GNOME 2 in paralel would have caused many headaches, bor both developers and users. Anyway, what finally matters (at least IMO) is if the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 was smoothly done or not. I can say that yes, it was done quite satisfactorily. I know there are still some things that are not working as they should but the overall gnome-shell environment does a good job. >> I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it happened with >> kde3/ kde4 in its early stage, most sure because gnome3 is now stable >> enough to be safely included by default. > > It's because the GNOME team deliberately broke the ability to keep both > GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 at the same time. While effort could be expended to > allow them to live side by side, the API uses the same names for > functions and yet are incompatible with each other. GNOME upstream > decided that they didn't want people able to have both. Since GNOME has > moved forward with version 3, they reason, everyone else must be forced > to move forward, as well. Kudos to Debian GNOME team then :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jten4q$sc9$9...@dough.gmane.org
