Re: Bug#637331: transition: nautilus

[Kees de Jong <keesdejong@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your explanation, this makes my anticipation more bearable ;-)
Your work is greatly appreciated! 


 


On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 08:57 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 17:53 +0200, Kees de Jong wrote:
> > Maybe an odd question, but why could other distributions evolve more
> > easily and faster to Gnome 3 than Debian?
>
> Likely because other distros tend to take shortcuts (or, on a more
> positive note, because they are more daring). They'll get rid of
> existing functionality for the sake of shiny new things. Such a thing
> happened, for example, with gdm 2.20. Debian kept using an old version,
> simply because the newer one broke some setups (afair). Another similar
> thing happened with PulseAudio, and even Upstart. Debian is conservative
> like that. The nice thing is that all these packages are available for
> installation (Upstart, PulseAudio, GNOME 3), only they aren't blessed as
> default.
>
> > And if it's quality and stability reasons, then what are these
> > qualities that Debian harnesses with this long transition period?
>
> I don't understand this.

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Met vriendelijke groet,
Kees de Jong

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