Re: GNOME2 support revisited

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now that MINT has both a GNOME2 port and ax extension (plugin, whatever) for
> GNOME3 to make it usable without user retraining, will these features be
> available in Fedora17, or has the move to kill GNOME2 become a holy war.

There is nothing stopping anyone from packaging the Mint Gnome Shell
Extensions [1] or the MATE Desktop Environment [2] for Fedora.  If you
are interested in doing so, see [3].

> We support RHEL6 installations, and in addition to training time and application
> (re)development costs, people complain that switching between GUI hurts
> productivity, creates typos, etc, etc. People spend time whining about it, that
> definitely hurts productivity.

Whether or not Red Hat includes either of these in RHEL7 is of course
Red Hat's decision, not the Fedora community's.

-T.C.

[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE
[2] https://github.com/perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment/wiki
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
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