On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 09/28/2011 02:43 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > >>I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE. > >>But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't > >>someone, > >>who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a > >>different package name) ? > > IMO, that's a misperception: Most people who complain about Gnome3 > don't like its look'n'feel and/or are missing certain > functionalities, but like the Gnome2 look'n'feel and/or certain > functionalities. > That's entirely different from forking Gnome2. > > It's xfce's similarity to Gnome2, which makes xfce applicable as a > resort to them. > > >That's the open source way. Don't like Gnome 3? Then fork and maintain > >Gnome 2 and build a new project around it. If there are enough people > >who support such a move then a community will form around it. > > Alternatively, the Gnome folks finally start listening to their > users and bring back the old look'n'feel and at least some its > functionalties.
And since the possibility of that happening is next to zero, we're back to "fork and support" for Gnome 2. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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