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GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 21:36 UTC (Fri) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by patrick_g
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

The GNOME devs understand that very well, they're even volunteering to make it easier for people to get a traditional Windows 95/Gnome 2-like experience with the Shell. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685744

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Posted Nov 10, 2012 6:11 UTC (Sat) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link]

>>> The GNOME devs understand that very well, they're even volunteering to make it easier for people to get a traditional Windows 95/Gnome 2-like experience with the Shell.

Really ?
Please look at this article.
Citation from one GNOME dev (Allan Day): "Facilitating the unrestricted use of extensions and themes by end users seems contrary to the central tenets of the GNOME 3 design".
Citation from another GNOME dev (William Jon McCann): "I am really concerned about this effort to encourage and sanction themes and extensions.".

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 18:24 UTC (Sat) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]

This is hair-raising, indeed.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 19:32 UTC (Sat) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963) [Link]

What is there to look? As a free software project you see everything that happens in GNOME discussed in the open, and the several different opinions that includes. The opinions of Allan Day and William Jon McCann are not stopping the developments I linked in my post.