On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Chris Jones <chrisjones(a)comcen.com.au> wrote:
Well when I installed Gnome-Shell just the other day it was only a
~10MB
download and the installation was simple and didn't seem to alter anything.
Am I getting confused or something between Gnome 3 and Gnome-Shell. Are they
two different packages or the same thing?
I believe the gnome-shell included in F13 and earlier was an early
prototype that used toolkits and libraries that were available in
Gnome 2. The latest gnome-shell uses updated resourses available only
in Gnome 3 so there is no clear update path from one to the other
without including the entire Gnome 3 infrastructure and I think that
would be considered too big of a change to make within a Fedora
version.
/Mike