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#1 2011-01-06 12:59:47
- Mr. Alex
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Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
Like with KDE 3.5 - it was available for some time after KDE 4 was out. Will there be anything like this with Gnome 2?
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#2 2011-01-06 13:10:06
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#3 2011-01-06 13:43:23
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Re: Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
the plan is like this:
* 2.32.1 is the latest released version from 2.x series.
* the release team would contact some maintainers from the mainstream distros and maybe they would support 2.x with the help for the distros
* if some developer from some gnome module wants to support the 2.x version is their decision
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#4 2011-01-06 13:44:53
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Re: Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
Gnome 3 seems to be an incremental update over 2, and you should be able to use gnome-panel and your wm of choice with it, instead of gnome-shell/mutter, so it's pretty much unlike KDE 3 -> 4 transition.
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#5 2011-01-06 13:47:54
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Re: Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
Gnome 3 seems to be an incremental update over 2, and you should be able to use gnome-panel and your wm of choice with it, instead of gnome-shell/mutter, so it's pretty much unlike KDE 3 -> 4 transition.
not at all.
there was a discussion until yesterday about that.
1) you can't use any other WM because gnome 3 would lose the modularization.
2) gnome-panel is for fallback mode but nobody knows how this would work. Right now gnome-applets is not even into their plans.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ "My thoughts on fallback mode" thread
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#6 2011-01-06 14:04:23
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Re: Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths :
"While it is true that the GNOME 3 experience will not include the panel as it was in GNOME 2"
What panel? The one with applets?
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#7 2011-01-06 16:11:58
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Re: Will Gnome 2 be available after Gnome 3 is out?
yes, gnome-panel is where you add the applets and applications launchers.
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