Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:27:42PM -0500, Máirín Duffy 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 is not enough for all. Various people want the 2.32 version of e.g.
gnome-control-center and so on. This is partly why MATE became popular
despite that you could get the 2.x gnome-applets+gnome-panel experience
under fallback mode (didn't take much effort, but seemed like it was too
difficult to discover or something).

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