Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 17, 2013 22:19 UTC (Mon) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)
In reply to: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget) by raven667
Parent article: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

I think you are rewriting history here.

GNOME 3 was released in 2011 and we are now all of a sudden seeing a working Classic UI.

Not so long ago GNOME devs were talking about dropping fallback/classic entirely (yeah, because everyone loves shell so much).

You can see how people would think that RedHat is far more influential to GNOME than actual users right?

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 17, 2013 22:31 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Developers always have more influence than users on the direction of the project but "fallback/classic" is a confusing thing to say because they aren't the same thing. GNOME developers wanted to drop fallback mode because a number of components were starting to depend on clutter and wouldn't work properly in fallback mode. Fallback mode also required maintaining additional components like GNOME Panel. Classic mode doesn't have those issues.