Re: Why can't why have both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3?
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:40:58 +0100
Lorenzo Bandieri <lorenzo.bandieri@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Why weren't the new gnome packages named with a "3" in their name, to allow
> >> both gnome 2 and gnome 3 to exist in the repositories, and allow the user to
> >> choose which one they want? After all, we had apache and apache2, php4 and
> >> php5, mysql4 and mysql5, etc, etc.
> >>
> >> I'm not saying they should be allowed to be installed at the same time, if
> >> that would cause problems. I would be perfectly happy if the "gnome3"
> >> package(s) had a "Conflicts: gnome2" type of entry in the metadata.
> >>
> >> Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > It's most probably because GNOME 2's been EOLd upstream. For example,
> > IIRC, apache1 and apache2 coexisted for sarge and etch because they
> > were both maintained upstream at the time.
>
>
> I agree with Tom. As far as I can tell, gnome 2 is no more developed:
> no support, no bugfixes, no updates... Not surprisingly, there is a
> gnome 2 fork called Mate (at least, that I'm aware of), but I wouldn't
> count on it: probably it'll never be included in the official debian
> repos.
>
> When KDE 4 was released, I remember many KDE 3 users were
> disappointed; to keep KDE 3.5 alive was made a fork called Trinity.
> Indeed, Trinity Desktop Environment is still active and updated [1],
> but is not included in the official debian repos, and... have you ever
> heard of someone using trinity as DE? Personally, no.
>
> The past gnome forks all died after a short life (EXDE, GoneME). It's
> sad, but even if gnome 2/Mate doesn't die, it *probably* will remain a
> niche product for nostalgics. At least, the odds are against it. I
> think that basically we have to hope/wait for gnome 3 to get better.
>
> Cheers,
> Lorenzo
>
>
> [1] http://trinitydesktop.org/
>
>
You can make Gnome3-shell look as near as damn it like gnome2-shell
The only thing I haven't been able to do with 3 that i could do with 2 is right click
on an app in the drop down menu to put a short cut of the app either on the desktop or the panel.
And I haven't used any thing that wasn't in the debian repos.
You are stuck with it , it wont go away.
I hope the problem I had with gnome3-shell in fedora doesn't creep in to this distro.
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
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