[Mageia-discuss] Gnome3 on Mageia 1

andre999 andr55 at laposte.net
Tue Jun 7 11:21:21 CEST 2011


Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>
> 2011/6/7 Olav Vitters<olav at vitters.nl>:
>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:48:55AM +0200, Thomas Lottmann wrote:
>>> On the other hand, I'd like to still have the possibility to keep
>>> and install Gnome 2.xx in the future, as Gnome 3 isn't both stable
>>> and reliable and complete yet.
>>
>> GNOME 2.x is not needed, there is the fallback mode in GNOME3; it'll
>> give you a gnome-panel and so on. The default layout looks like
>> GNOME-shell, but it just is a newer gnome-panel.
>
> The graphics is not such a big issue, as you stated, the user can
> always use the fallback mode.
>
> My personal killer of Gnome3 is the switch from normal editable
> configuration files to a kind of registry, to be edited with a special
> editor. This is a no-go. Normal text files for configuration is one of
> the common basics of Linux (and most *nix based systems). Each rescue
> system, be it as small as possible comes with a  text editor (I've
> never seen any system without vi) to edit configuration files and thus
> mend a broken system. This will not be possible with Gnome3.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was what the Gnome people told me in Berlin.

No offense, but I hope you're wrong.  I wouldn't like to see that either.

-- 
André


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