On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:17:36PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > [Bcc: all maintainers of GNOME applets] > > Hi, > > as it was already mentioned for other reasons, GNOME 3 is just around > the corner, and there are some big changes ahead. DO NOT PANIC: the > current desktop with gnome-panel and metacity will remain as an > alternative. Anyone wanting to troll about how gnome-shell sucks is > invited to do so elsewhere, since the topic here is gnome-panel. > > The panel remains, but it will be a GTK3 / D-Bus panel. In its current > state, it doesn’t support the good old GTK2 / bonobo applets, of which > we have a lot in the archive. Upstream confirmed they don’t have time to > support them for 3.0 unless someone steps up to do the job.
This is only partially correct though. gnome-panel will remain, but in a heavily modified state -- the intention for the GNOME 3 version of gnome-panel is having it as a fallback in case gnome-shell isn't supported, and thus a lot of features will be gutted or altered to ensure that it behaves as similar as possible to gnome-shell. People who have been expressing concern about this have, reasonably enough, been told that gnome-panel 2.32 is probably what they really want. Are there any plans to provide this package? [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110307010110.gh23...@suiko.acc.umu.se