GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 3, 2011 23:30 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: GNOME 3.2 released by rahulsundaram
Parent article: GNOME 3.2 released

Broken homes (3.0 regressions) have been belabored on LWN, on Gnome bugzilla, and elsewhere. If you said that they are regrettable but necessary then I might disagree but I could hear where you're coming from.

But, you say that 3.0 only painted the walls black? A few cosmetic changes? You sure we're talking about the same release?

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 4, 2011 2:09 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Yes. We certainly are. Having gone through the 1.4 to 2.x transition before, I know and heard such talks about "regressions" before and we just have different perspectives. GNOME Shell is just a different UI to the same underlying components and very much a robust release compared to GNOME 2.0 or KDE 4.0. GNOME 3.2 has made some incremental progress and I am pretty sure when GNOME 4.0 gets released, people will be talking about how perfect 3.x was and how GNOME 4.x has destroyed all that. If you don't like the new UI, try out alternatives and there is a large amount of choices.

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 4, 2011 8:17 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm talking about failing to work on hardware that previously ran Gnome 2. These seem like real regressions:

not working in VMs
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=263733
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264530
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264331
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6637295.html?sid=8d1...
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-May/...

Like you, I'm confident the driver issues will be worked out, the UI will be improved, and things will settle down again. All I'm saying is, judging by forum posts and mailing list messages, it feels like Gnome 3 did more than just paint the walls black!

(regretting speculating about someone liking Gnome more than his home... it seemed like an entertaining analogy at the time.)

GNOME 3.2 released

Posted Oct 4, 2011 11:32 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Sure. This is true of pretty much any major .0 release.