Jordi Mallach wrote: > In addition to this, moving to Xfce now would mean yet another transition to > a new desktop (if we consider GNOME 2.x → 3.x a transition, which it is), Would that we had considered that when shipping wheezy... > which would mean a new round of adapation for users installing Debian from > scratch, and only after two years after getting used to the GNOME 3 workflow. There's a hidden assumption there that the only people who are going to be using a desktop in jessie have already been exposed to gnome 3. It's also a big stretch to say that many people are going to be surprised by the xfce interface, even if they have gotten used to gnome 3 recently. > jessie's GNOME 3.x release should be a lot more polished than what we shipped > with wheezy, which means many of the rough edges and annoyances people may > have found when upgrading from squeeze are probably now ironed out. It's still basically fundamentally different from any other DE, although broadly riffing on mobile UI's, right? -- see shy jo
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