On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 09/28/2011 02:43 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>>I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE.
>>But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't
someone,
>>who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a
>>different package name) ?
IMO, that's a misperception: Most people who complain about Gnome3
don't like its look'n'feel and/or are missing certain
functionalities, but like the Gnome2 look'n'feel and/or certain
functionalities.
That's entirely different from forking Gnome2.
It's xfce's similarity to Gnome2, which makes xfce applicable as a
resort to them.
>That's the open source way. Don't like Gnome 3? Then fork and maintain
>Gnome 2 and build a new project around it. If there are enough people
>who support such a move then a community will form around it.
Alternatively, the Gnome folks finally start listening to their
users and bring back the old look'n'feel and at least some its
functionalties.
And since the possibility of that happening is next to zero, we're back
to "fork and support" for Gnome 2.
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