On 28 January 2013 12:27, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon 28 Jan 2013 02:17:29 PM EST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> "Going away" isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going >> to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official >> feature of Gnome 3.8. >> >> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/01/25/gnome-3-7-at-the-halfway-mark/ > > Won't the new GNOME 3 classic mode effectively render Cinnamon, MATE, > and friends obsolete? It will depend on whether people outside of the current GNOME use base think so. If they do then the other forks will go away over 2-3 years (usual timeframe for such things to work out). If it doesn't then no they will not all go away. I mean Enlightenment, FVWM2 and even TWM have sizable* usage bases. * Sizable being over 200 people as at that size the group seems to self-petuate indefinately as new people come in and old people go. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
