GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 15:06 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by nix
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

I wonder if it's RHEL 7 looming on the horizon that might have changed things? Has RedHat internally started to realise that their ultra-conservative customer base when confronted with "the GNOME3 way is the true way, and if you don't like it go write an extension in an unstable API, fork or fuck off" may well choose the latter? Complaints from Joe Fedora User are easy to ignore (whining, ungrateful, change-resistant leachers the lot of them), but customers not so easy.

I wonder… :)

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GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 16:20 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

Possible, but... who on earth uses RHEL on a desktop? Maybe it happens, but server-side usage is far more common (that's surely what the paying customers are paying for, right?)

RHEL on the desktop

Posted Nov 10, 2012 17:53 UTC (Sat) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]

"who on earth uses RHEL on a desktop?"

One example: my university has a licensing agreement to mediate distribution and support of RHEL on all (so far as I know) campus machines, including individual desktops. So individual labs and individual desktop users have some incentive to use RHEL. I personally don't think RHEL is a good choice for my lab machines, so I don't use it. But I can certainly understand why other labs do.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 18:31 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't know about RedHat specifically, but I can take a guess extrapolating from the kinds of "desktop" customers Sun had. Not desktops in the ordinary joe sense, but desktops in the "platform to deliver a limited set of applications reliably/consistently" sense. Think stock-brokers / trading workstations, banking, etc, where for whatever reason a desktop interface is still preferable to a custom, restricted "kiosk" interface.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 22:04 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

> where for whatever reason a desktop interface is still preferable to a custom, restricted "kiosk" interface.

every kiosk interface needs to be built on top of some desktop interface, try it sometime.