Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types [LWN.net]

Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

Posted Nov 4, 2011 16:22 UTC (Fri) by hadess (subscriber, #24252)
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

Jonathan, where did anybody affirm that fallback was going to be kept "ad eternam" in GNOME 3? It might have been considered a half-way house, or the answer to some people's complaints about GNOME Shell, but it was never advertised as something permanent.

Just why would we want to spend time keeping a "not quite GNOME 2" environment working when we could spend that time on new features and bug fixes for the real GNOME 3 experience?

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Keeping fallback mode

Posted Nov 4, 2011 16:31 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Nobody promised to keep fallback mode around forever; as I noted in my other comment, it seems highly unlikely that it could ever happen.

But neither did the GNOME developers say it was a temporary thing. Instead, a lot of them were saying "you don't like GNOME shell? No problem, just use the fallback mode." Can you see how that might give rise to an expectation, in some users' minds, that fallback mode was actually a supported GNOME 3 feature?

Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

Posted Nov 5, 2011 19:40 UTC (Sat) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Forever, no, but it was also my impression that we'd keep it around for entire 3.x. However long we'd decide 3.x to be (no clue). Seems it is not appreciated and costs way more development time that anticipated, so we'd need to revisit the decision. But initiall, entire 3.x as far as I was aware.