Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4
situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage
when moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...),
and is lacking basic features gnome 2 had. (sensors applet, startup
application management, multi-monitor, custom keybindings, ...).
I think removing Gnome2 from arch's repositories would be a mistake.
Even gentoo is maintaining gnome2 support until "At least Gnome 3.2". If
myself and others volunteered to help maintain a [gnome2] repo, would it
be considered for official mirrorage?
- Neph
On 04/10/2011 06:47 AM, Tom wrote:
So, now that Gnome 3 has been released, and after reading the announcement that
it will 'by default' replace gnome2 in the near future, I'd like to ask if
there are any plans on 'keeping' gnome2 around for use with arch linux.
I ask this, because I've been using gnome3 from the unstable repository, and
know, that a lot of people are not going to like the change, especially because
so called 'fall-back-mode' is just a joke, and gnome-shell, at least to me is
plain broken. I'm merely voicing my opinion here, no flames :-P
But to have a choice would be great!
Tom
