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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:38 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by Zizzle
Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Please be less vague, less accusing and less pointless sarcasm. That or don't complain when you get a response in kind.

As said elsewhere: XMMS still will run fine under GNOME 3. And I do mean the gtk+1.x compiled XMMS, though maybe your distribution doesn't ship it anymore.


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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:47 UTC (Wed) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]

So XMMS with gtk+1.x is the official media player for GNOME3?

All the iTunes users will be jealous. This year will surely be the year of the linux desktop.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 20:02 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

Ah, the stupid sarcasm again.

Anyway, to quote yourself

And what do we users gain from all this application breakage?

You said application breakage in some weird relation to the GNOME 2 panel. I responded to that. Now instead it is about some official GNOME 3 media player? Whatever.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 20:54 UTC (Wed) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]

> You said application breakage in some weird relation to the GNOME 2 panel

Someone complained about parallel installs of GNOME2 and 3.

ebassi says that the gnome 2 libs are parallel installable so it's all good.

But then later admits that doesn't actually help that much since application functionality is often reduced/broken in GNOME3. HIS example was Banshee. But it's all the user/applications fault, not GNOME3.

I questioned the benefits of the changes that caused that breakage.

Your defense was that OMG! XMMS still works.

A true WTF. I'm not even sure why you would make the leap to XMMS.

XMMS has nothing to do with this conversation.

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