GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode [LWN.net]

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 10:46 UTC (Fri) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by mmonaco
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Most distros are packaging Mate now.

The future of Gnome3 is Gnome2.

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GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 15:22 UTC (Fri) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

But always in addition to, not instead of, GNOME 3. And rarely as the "default" desktop, which makes a big difference. MATE do it as default. Anyone else?

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 20:09 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

As an extra or not?

A packaging/fork issue of Cinnamon resulted in a massive GNOME bug in Mageia. Basically Cinnamon didn't rename something, resulting in the auto provides/dependencies getting screwed up. At the moment there are only GNOME and KDE live cds, no MATE and no Cinnamon. To be clear: I help with Mageia and my interest is solely GNOME, as long as GNOME works I don't want to know what else is available or happening :) Cinnamon breaking GNOME (didn't start up) obviously was not something I want though ;)

I noticed MATE packaging in Fedora and Opensuse. Also Unity, but there often they packaged forked projects... which IMO is just wrong.

In any case, GNOME 2 is dead. Maybe future is MATE.. but nobody picked up on GNOME 2 (they could've, I've offered git accounts in the past).