On 02/12/2013 12:26 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded. > > Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone > knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo?
Heh. That's a complicated question, and I'm ready to give you a complicated answer but I probably can't stay awake that long :) Most important: are you ready to suffer long hours of learning/debugging/hair- pulling/screaming to help guide the future of gnome3? Big question, and I'm still trying to decide for myself after months of not deciding :) I loved gnome2 and I wish for the good old days because every step the gnome3 devs have taken is a mystery to me. They probably have a grand vision for the future of the gnome desktop, but it's been nothing but a PITA for me because along the way they've removed some features from apps that I use everyday for important stuff like, scheduling/keeping appointments on time, etc. In my arrogant opinion, gnome3 is betaware (just-barely-beyond-alphaware) and you should 'up'grade only if you're willing to live with that excitement. One little tidbit of good news (IMO) is that the gnome3 devs have decided to maintain a 'legacy' gnome desktop for those of us who don't like gnome-shell, which I definitely don't (but Canek definitely does). I suggest you try the latest gnome3 liveCD in a virtual machine so you don't have to risk your current gnome2 install. It's a big step, and one you may want to postpone if you're not ready for hard work and big headaches. IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :)
