[Mageia-discuss] Gnome3 on Mageia 1

[Thomas Lottmann]

Le 07/06/2011 16:36, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:00:28PM +0200, Thomas Lottmann wrote:
>> to do some more testing on a longer period of time, but on the two
>> computer using a SuSE based system running Gnome 3, I had quite a
>> lot numerous visual issues and got one program crashing. But some
>> time has passed and there were probably updates so I need to retest.
> This is totally different from the experiences I heard of (aside from
> driver issues), so it surprises me. Usually feedback is regarding e.g.
> user interface or broken drivers.
>
> If not too offtopic for this list, could you expand on the visual
> issues? Something driver related, or something indicating a bug within a
> program? Also, which program crashed?
>
> I'd assume if GNOME 3 would be included, it would start with GNOME 3.1
> (unstable version leading up to 3.2). So Mageia 2 would have the 3.2
> release, not the 3.0 one. In practice: a lot more effort and fixes since
> 3.0.0.
>
>> But looking at the available environments, I'm thinking that in case
>> some people really can't handle Gnome 3, there is actually Xfce that
>> can be a good fallback. I'm not sure there are enough people for
>> maintaining Gnome 2.32 for six extra months. I am simply cautions
>> about releases that may not be really polished and stable.
> My main experience is with Mandriva, and I always loved how quickly
> they'd have all the new GNOME development releases (generally within
> hours of the tarballs being available). That's actually a few days
> before GNOME actually does a release (due to release process + QA).
>
> I think not having GNOME 3.0 was a good choice, but there is enough time
> now and experience to integrate 3.2 nicely.
>
> Related to your question who'd maintain GNOME 2.32? Within GNOME or
> within Mageia? There won't be any GNOME 2.32.x release within GNOME;
> though anyone is free to provide patches for those branches.

The question was if it was possible to get Gnome 2.23 to be kept in the 
Mageia repositories for a short time, the time needed for Gnome 3 to 
improve and/or get adopted progressively.

I believe we aren't Fedora, we're Mageia. And we do not need to input 
immediately brightly new versions of some components that may pose some 
issues by lack of massive testing and some functionalities that may be 
missing or frustrate. .1 or .2 should resolve these issues.

Personally, I am not convinced Gnome 3 is good yet, essentially in terms 
of productivity. So it is not only because of some technical issues that 
may appear more or less randomly, but also because of the concept of 
Gnome 3 itself. But this is very subjective and I want to sort out my 
own opinion as well. So basically this is essentially based on my sole 
view.