[Mageia-discuss] Gnome3 on Mageia 1

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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.

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wobo