Em Ter, 2011-07-05 às 02:58 +0300, Evangelos Foutras escreveu: > On 5 July 2011 01:53, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just in case some of you need the old gnome. > > That's not how we roll, and people should be discouraged from using > frozen repositories. I know, I do not like the idea too. I build the repository only because I have several (30+) notebooks, used by end users that are unable to use gnome3. Gnome3 is too advanced for them, or the notebooks do not have graphical hardware for gnome3 (3D). They barely can operate gnome2 (they came from windows XP)... The keyboard commands in gnome3 is not an option for them. The option was to come back to windows XP. but they would loose the libreoffice, the evolution, epiphany, gthumb. They are: musicist, nurses, house wifes, old peole (60+ yo)... and so on... I tried the Xfce, but it does not have integration gnome have (automount, gphoto, gthumb, eog, evince... Kde is too complicated for them. some have used Kde 3.2... > > The only way this could work would be to have an actively maintained > repository complementing the official ones. I imagine this is not an > easy task at all, considering upstream's discontinuation of the Gnome > 2 line. > > So, people who are still using Gnome 2 are encouraged to upgrade to > Gnome 3 and see if they like it. After a week or so, they can choose > to either keep it – if they're happy – or switch to another desktop > environment (maybe even try a window manager instead). or come back to windows XP and forget about the Linux adventure... Here K1 (my company) builds servers running FreeBSD, and we already support about 1200 ports (applications) that runs on servers. We decided for Archlinux because of the notebooks (freebsd does not do well on notebooks still) . Indeed, we have to port serveral applications to Archlinux for example: id3ren, gdm 2.18, libreoffice 3.3.4, mencoder, new versions of ffmpeg, mplayer, dvdstyler, anjuta, sis671 Xserver, vnc (not tightvnc), Xvnc... basically what we use in FreeBSD and do not have in archlinux... Sergio
