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

Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Posted Jan 26, 2013 16:58 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark by marcel.oliver
Parent article: Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Let's be more specific. Fedora volunteers are usually involved in just packaging components. Red Hat has a Fedora team but they are mostly involved in development that is directly connected to Fedora - web apps and other infrastructure within Fedora itself. Red Hat also has a desktop team which has worked with the larger GNOME development team to introduce the GNOME classic session and that is part of Fedora 19 and Red Hat is unlikely to invest development effort into Cinnamon because GNOME classic session is the focus for people who want a GNOME 2 like workflow.

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Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Posted Jan 27, 2013 10:20 UTC (Sun) by marcel.oliver (subscriber, #5441) [Link]

This is very encouraging news - the first time I hear about it. It would be great if you could expand on the "Gnome classic session" or refer to a good resource about it.

Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Posted Jan 27, 2013 17:27 UTC (Sun) by marcel.oliver (subscriber, #5441) [Link]

Oops, I now realize that this is in fact in TFA. I did not initially read it to that point, shame on me. This is big news, I did not expect this at all.

It will be interesting to watch how it turns out. It might obsolete Cinnamon if it is done well. I am not a fan of forking everything if that can be avoided...

Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark

Posted Jan 28, 2013 12:14 UTC (Mon) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link]

Not to dampen your enthusiasm, but it doesn't seem likely that the classic mode will ever catch up with Cinnamon: I seriously doubt that they'd pour much effort into it because it might threaten their "vision" (not to speak of the "brand" ;) wrt Gnome Shell.

One could also remark that not such thing as a "classic mode" would have been conceived if it were not for the success of GNOME 2 and 3 forks (Mate, Cinnamon).

At this point in time, I'm pretty happy with Cinnamon as is: it's much more than a "classic mode", although among other things Nemo kept all the useful features that they threw away with Nautilus, and more stuff is coming with Cinnamon 1.8 (http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/what-to-expect-in-linux-mi...).

Rehdon