[Mageia-dev] GNOME 3.2 or 3.4 for Mageia 2?

[Olav Vitters]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:33:59PM +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
> However, how great is GNOME 3.4 going to be as compared to 3.2.2 ? :)

For me it is multiple things:
1. More stable; The more people use a recent version of GNOME, more
   fixes will go into GNOME and long term GNOME is more stable

   Basically: if your GNOME version is old, developers spend less time
   on it, because they assume the issue is probably fixed. So, IMO, to
   ensure GNOME stays at a high quality, you have to provide a recent
   version... staying 1 version behind only works for short term (the
   "Release early, release often" mindset).
2. Then the 3.4 plans, like: action lists, focus-follows-mouse, better
   working Documents + Contacts. Noticed some plans for other
   applications like "Boxes" (1 app which connects to VMs + connect to
   other machines), gnome-shell extension webapp, etc.
   This is brief, as the developers are still writing down all their
   plans. Also, not everything that is planned turns out that way (e.g.
   I expected Zeitgeist in 3.2).

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Regards,
Olav