Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 28, 2012 1:15 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Complaints and changes by neilbrown
Parent article: Changes and complaints

Considering that fallback mode is pretty much the same as Gnome 2, the only possible conclusion is that you're confused.

Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 28, 2012 2:46 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

It is certainly possible that I am confused. It is also possible that I have been swayed by all the negative publicity. But when I upgraded to openSUSE 12.1 and got Gnome 3, some stuff that I valued just stopped working, so I had to make an active decision. "Switch to Xfce" seemed easy, and it turned out that it was.

Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 28, 2012 9:54 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

Fallback mode is GNOME2 only for a limited period of time - soon as software rendering is in place for gnome-shell (which might be the case already, shipping in Fedora 17?). So the GNOME2 -> (GNOME3 | XFCE) disruptive change will soon be unavoidable.

Complaints and changes

Posted Mar 6, 2012 8:30 UTC (Tue) by jonasj (guest, #44344) [Link]

GNOME developers have stated publicly that anyone who wants to are welcome to continue maintaining it on gnome.org infrastructure. So just because GNOME 3 won't depend on it any longer once software rendering is in place, it will still be available.

Complaints and changes

Posted Mar 1, 2012 7:58 UTC (Thu) by cmm (guest, #81305) [Link]

> Considering that fallback mode is pretty much the same as Gnome 2

False, it's not even close.