Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 30, 2011 18:34 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by jond
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

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.