Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 13:39 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by MisterIO
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

The "classic" interface is produced by the GNOME project. My understanding is that it will not be available in it's current form on GTK3 (on which GNOME 3 is based).

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 30, 2011 18:20 UTC (Sat) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (2 responses)

The fallback desktop for GNOME3 is essentially the GNOME 2.x desktop, afaik. It's highly likely Ubuntu will provide access to that from gdm (as Debian plan to).

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 30, 2011 18:34 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

You are wrong. Fallback mode is not GNOME 2.x

Old style GNOME UI

Posted May 5, 2011 0:49 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

It's gnome-panel, metacity, and nautilus. They're updated, expanded, fixed, ported to GTK 3.x, and generally better, other than the default configuration being all gnome-shell-ish and also being locked down with magical nobody-but-the-special-few-knows-about-them keys to unlock.

But once you unlock, it's essentially the same as GNOME 2.x, except better.

If the numbskulls that diverted time and energy into mutter and gnome-shell had just fixed metacity's compositor and given metacity plugins, then we could have all the pluses of gnome-shell without being locked into a tiny handful of compatible chipsets/drivers with less development time and without needing to export two completely difficult looking and behaving toolkits to the user, "fallback mode" would never exist, and it wouldn't matter because all users of GNOME 3.x would be using the same software components and they could still be configured if desired for people who need a desktop OS and not iOS.