[Mageia-discuss] Gnome3 on Mageia 1

Tue Jun 7 10:33:42 CEST 2011

2011/6/7 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:48:55AM +0200, Thomas Lottmann wrote:
+>> On the other hand, I'd like to still have the possibility to keep
+>> and install Gnome 2.xx in the future, as Gnome 3 isn't both stable
+>> and reliable and complete yet.
+>
+> GNOME 2.x is not needed, there is the fallback mode in GNOME3; it'll
+> give you a gnome-panel and so on. The default layout looks like
+> GNOME-shell, but it just is a newer gnome-panel.
+
+The graphics is not such a big issue, as you stated, the user can
+always use the fallback mode.
+
+My personal killer of Gnome3 is the switch from normal editable
+configuration files to a kind of registry, to be edited with a special
+editor. This is a no-go. Normal text files for configuration is one of
+the common basics of Linux (and most *nix based systems). Each rescue
+system, be it as small as possible comes with a  text editor (I've
+never seen any system without vi) to edit configuration files and thus
+mend a broken system. This will not be possible with Gnome3.
+Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was what the Gnome people told me in Berlin.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+