Am Freitag, 2. September 2011, 18:03:55 schrieb Ilya Chernykh:
On Friday 02 September 2011 18:53:46 Vincent Untz wrote:
And we (those running factory of opensuse) were forced to move to gnome 3 unconditionally. Unlike with KDE 3 -> 4 move. Or we might switch to other environment. I chose the latter and won't switch back. I have enough of other work than switching DMs.
I'm sad to hear this. Unfortunately, I don't think it would have been possible to do things differently: there was no way to keep GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 at the same time with our current (read: extremely limited)
May be I am asking a wrong question, but why the resources are so limited? I heard that Novell is a company that operates with billions dollars and their business is SUSE-centric...
Novell is out. The next SLES, if any, will probably be done by the suse team which is not SLES. By the way, this is opensuse, the community thing which goes a long way making clear they're not a company's low budget linux and a bunch of idiots who work for free.
resources. I'm also interested to hear what's not working for people in the fallback mode compared to a GNOME 2 experience.
If you (general you, not just Jiri) are not happy with how GNOME is developed in openSUSE, a good first step is to join the opensuse-gnome mailing list or #opensuse-gnome channel, and start discussing how to improve things. We're not horrible people hating the world. At least I hope we're not :-)
Last week there was an interview with Jon McCann which was very disappointing for many people. He called to reject any patches and plugins that could make Gnome3 more Gnome2-like and suggested to those who are disappointed to just use another DE
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