On 06/09/11 16:01, Iain Lane wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:44:27PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: >> Tony Arnold wrote: >> >>>> Ubuntu 11.10 will ship with GNOME 3.x and Unity 3D as the default >>>> desktop with Unity 2D as the alternative option, not Classic. >>> >>> Does that mean the Classic interface will no longer be available >> >> Effectively, yes. There's not much scope for Gnome 2 existing alongside >> Gnome 3. > > Erm, not really. > > 2.32 obviously won't be available as Oneiric has GNOME 3. But that's not > the same as saying there is no alternative to Unity. > > There's gnome-shell. > > There's gnome-panel 3 (AKA gnome fallback mode) which is rather similar > (but not exactly the same) as gnome-panel 2. I'm using it right now. > It's not the end of the world. It's pretty "Classic".
That's reassuring. Thanks. I was worried the current Classic style interface was disappearing all together. I presume over the longer term that Canonical will concentrate its efforts on Unity and the Gnome upstream team will concentrate on gnome-shell as their preferred interfaces, so the gnome-panel or Classic style interface may well disappear or at least become less and less well supported at some stage. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
