Le 07/06/2011 10:00, Olav Vitters a écrit :

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.

Regarding GNOME 3 not being reliable, can you reference some bugreports?
This as I don't see any huge problems, especially not for a .0 release.

The falback mode still relies qui a lot on Gnome 3. I concede I need to do some more testing on a longer period of time, but on the two computer using a SuSE based system running Gnome 3, I had quite a lot numerous visual issues and got one program crashing. But some time has passed and there were probably updates so I need to retest.

But looking at the available environments, I'm thinking that in case some people really can't handle Gnome 3, there is actually Xfce that can be a good fallback. I'm not sure there are enough people for maintaining Gnome 2.32 for six extra months. I am simply cautions about releases that may not be really polished and stable.