Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark [LWN.net]

Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Posted Jan 25, 2013 19:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark by tetley80
Parent article: Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

> That's false reasoning from two points of view. (i) G2 is not dead upstream, as the MATE desktop is maintaining the G2 branch.

G2 didn't '_die_' upstream. Gnome released a new version of the desktop. The Gnome 2 developers became Gnome 3 developers. All the GTK libs and everything else that applications need to be backwards compatible still exists and have had new stable releases.

Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 and didn't exist until much more recently then Fedora following the upgrade path away from Gnome 2. It's a _NEW_ project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3

Targeted release: Fedora 15
Last updated: 2010-04-04
Percentage of completion: 100%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(desktop_environment)

Initial release August 19, 2011; 16 months ago

And it didn't make it into Fedora until the Fedora 18.

If you want to get all weepy over this stuff then that's fine, but at least don't just make random crap up.

> Labeling G3 as an "upgrade" is not in the same league as updating gcc 4.6 to 4.7, or going from Gnome 2.26 to 2.28, or going from kernel 3.4 to 3.5.

It's in the same league as going from 2.4 kernel to 2.6 kernel.

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