Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:27:36 -0400 > Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > ...snip... > >> I am not too surprised about GNOME3, but I thought the Fedora >> decision making group were better people than that and would offer >> GNOME2 for some length of time rather than offer no option at all but >> retrain. That might make sense for developers who learn new stuff all >> the time,and hobby users who are just playing or learning, but for >> people using Fedora to do things important to them, there is a huge >> time cost and no gain. > > There are two issues with such a option: > > 1) It would be a great deal of work to get gnome2 and gnome3 to > co-exist side by side, as they share a lot of things that would need to > be made to work for both. > > 2) There are no people (or very few) willing to maintain it. Upstream > is working on gnome3, all the fedora gnome maintainers are working on > gnome3. If a group of interested and qualified folks wanted to work on > providing gnome2 I would think it would be possible, but I know of no > such group. > > The "Fedora decision making group" has no power to hire a team to work > on gnome2. ;) > They have the power to say "not ready" though. And the alpha of fc15 shipped with a GNOME3 which runs in a VM and doesn't require a magic video card. Was that capability deliberately removed from the final fc15, or was it part of the official GNOME3 release and absolutely unfixable? Because running a GNOME3 desktop in a VM would be a low impact teaching tool, users could get their feet wet without a full install on bare iron. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
