Re: gnome3 now in wheezy?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Camaleón wrote:
> > > On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > >
> > > > Camaleón wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I was under the mistaken impression that wheezy still had a usable
> > > > > > gnome, as opposed to sid which has "upgraded" to gnome3.
> > > > > Please, please.... don't confuse the terms :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Repeat with me:
> > > > >
> > > > > "GNOME3 is not gnome-shell"
> > > >  From http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
> > > >
> > > > GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience.
> > > But they (gnome3 and gnome-shell) both are different and separate
> > > things.
> > >
> > > GNOME2/3 are a whole DE while "gnome-panel" and "gnome-shell" are just
> > > the UI (user interfaces), meaning that you can have GNOME3 with gnome-
> > > panel, you are not sticked to use the new UI at all (see the fallback
> > > mode).
> > Right. But the concept of separating the DE and the UI is new with the
> > "newfangled" Gnome. Even without the new UI the new DE is hard to
> > swallow, similar to the new GDM (GDM3) which in one swoop eliminated all
> > the niceties of GDM.
>
> It's not a new thingy, gnome-shell is just a replacement for gnome-panel, 
> nothing more and nothing less. GNOME2 had also an UI that was called 
> gnome-panel, it has been always there although we did not notice :-)
>
> Basically, the names of the components can be "permuted" as follows:
>
> GNOME2 → GNOME3
> gnome-panel → gnome-shell
> metacity → mutter

I stand to be corrected. Thanks.

Hugo