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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 10, 2011 22:05 UTC (Thu) by tuna (guest, #44480)In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by GhePeU Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
Do you have any source to back up the claim that the Gnome developers deliberately made it difficult to do a parallel install of Gnome 2 and 3?
If you (or anyone else) would like to contribute patches to enable this I believe they would be accepted. Previously on LWN Gnome developers have stated that stated that people can work on Gnome 2 in the Gnome development system (git, bugzilla etc.). However, projects like MATE have decided to use github, why I do not really know.
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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 23:08 UTC (Thu) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133) [Link]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-Oc...
I'm pretty sure there's something older than that, but I can't find it now.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 8:32 UTC (Fri) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link]
So when GNOME developers say they don't see a point in making GNOME 2 and 3 parallel installable and that _they_ will not work on it, your interpretation of that is that they "made certain that parallel installation of GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 was impossible".
If you are interested in a useful discussion, you may want to rethink about how you present things in the future. Twisting words like that only manages to create conflict. If that is not your intent, I would suggest a more neutral presentation of what other people are saying or doing.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 9:13 UTC (Fri) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133) [Link]
Choosing to use conflicting names for all the binaries and the same namespaces for the settings means that the only way to have GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 on the same machine is installing one of the two on a non-standard path and doing a lot of clever things with the environment to ensure that what needs GNOME 2 can find it and what needs GNOME 3 can find it, or patching all the GNOME 2 packages to append "2" everywhere (or switch to a different name like MATE did) and altering all the software who depends on GNOME 2 to cope with the unexpected "2" or the new name.
Now it is true that they didn't resort to physical violence or legal threats, but for me what they did is enough to say that they made parallel installation impossible for all practical purposes.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 16:41 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
MATE seems to be doing it.
Also I have never had any issues with running GTK2/Gnome2 software on Gnome 3.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 13, 2011 16:52 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]
Mate looks like a one-man stand.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 13:43 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
You're reading too much into it. It would be difficult to so for various technical reasons (I forgot which.. the various developers know), so no development time was spent on it. Instead, time was spent porting gnome-panel and ensuring metacity could still work under GNOME 3.
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