And so the end of GNOME begins [LWN.net]

And so the end of GNOME begins

Posted Mar 2, 2011 10:02 UTC (Wed) by blujay (guest, #39961)
Parent article: An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com)

Here's a quote from a journal article they cite in their rationales:

"How then do we proceed to something different and
more functional? It must by by an *iterative process* rather than
purely by the adoption of some new scheme or technology." (emphasis mine)
--<http://www.simson.net/ref/1988/Lansdale88.pdf>, linked from <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638271>

Ironic, no?

GNOME 3 is going to be a joke. They are shooting themselves in the foot. I predict a strong fork of GNOME 2 and/or mass exodus to KDE, et al. Oh well, it's just the Free Software "ecosystem": survival of the fittest, death of the dumbest.

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And so the end of GNOME begins

Posted Mar 2, 2011 11:27 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

There is always XFCE if you want a conservative desktop with a "classic" feel. Too bad it always gets second billing in distributions. The distro-specific maintenance tools tend to be Gnome or KDE oriented, and the integration sometimes has rough edges. I have been using XFCE for around 2 years now as the default desktop on my work linux computer (after KDE), and it has worked quite well. XFCE has few frills, but does not get in the way of real work.

The start of XFCE

Posted Mar 2, 2011 22:08 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Seconded. It's simple, clean and enjoyable all around. It became my primary desktop a few years ago and it's the first thing I now install on Debian. Gnome (or KDE) refugees should give it a try.