On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Fred Obermann wrote:
My sense is that Gnome 3 is an attempt to provide a desktop for
tablets, and smart phones, or at least a desktop metaphor more in line
with the desktops for those devices. And it may be great for for
most casual users.
However for development work, where you have literally have dozens of
open windows, and are constantly switching between them in the course
of editing and debugging, Gnome 3 is an awful substitute for Gnome 2.x
Should the folks at Mageia decide to support Gnome 3, it would really
be good if there was some option during the installation process to
opt for Gnome 2.x for those of us will be looking at Mageia to replace
Mandriva as our software development platform.
There are two sides to gnome 3: the gnome shell and the regular combo of
gnome panel and metacity. There should not be any reason to keep gnome 2
because you don't have to run the mode you dislike so much. There may be
bugs or features missing compared to gnome 2, so I hope enough people test
this "fallback mode" (which I currently called "gnome classic" in the gdm
session chooser) before the next release.
Christiaan
