Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes: > > On 03/19/2011 10:45 AM, JB wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius<rc040203<at> freenet.de> writes: > > > >> > >> On 03/18/2011 10:15 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >>> Tom Horsley wrote: > >>>> Yea - start a different branch of gnome or kde (or something new) > >>>> and see which one people install the most. > >>> > >>> You mean... XFCE? Or... LXDE? ... or Enlightenment (the one people claim > >>> is holy water)? > >> In longer terms, likely. In short terms, I'd expect people to switch to > >> different distros and OSes. > >> ... > > > > I have not tried F15 Alpha yet. > I gave it a try, but ... many, many issues, ... > ... primary issue to me: Gnome3 ... "Kool Kiz" may like it ... I so far > am not impressed and have started to look for alternatives. > > ... it's still "F15 alpha", so it's too early to start yelling, > ... http://www.gnome3.org/faq.html It is to expect that both GNOME and Fedora will want to throw their weight of devs and users/testers behind GNOME 3. But the very early reviews are mostly ranging from confusion to negative. I remember long time ago I was a fan of KDE, but KDE started deteriorating, and with KDE 4 it was over for me. I switched to GNOME and actually liked it progressively. Also, there is a lot of GNOME tools, utilities, and advanced applications. There is a danger that in case of an abrupt GNOME 2 phaseout, many users and add-on devs would be lost. The damage could affect some distros as well. I hope that both GNOME and Fedora projects take this into consideration. There is a big and painful lesson to learn from KDE 4 debacle. So, I am wondering if Fedora takes into consideration providing GNOME 2 as well (in parallel) with F15 and for some time beyond ? Is there any official statement by Fedora with regard to that ? JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
