Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4 situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...), and is lacking basic features gnome 2 had. (sensors applet, startup application management, multi-monitor, custom keybindings, ...). I think removing Gnome2 from arch's repositories would be a mistake. Even gentoo is maintaining gnome2 support until "At least Gnome 3.2". If myself and others volunteered to help maintain a [gnome2] repo, would it be considered for official mirrorage? - Neph On 04/10/2011 06:47 AM, Tom wrote:
So, now that Gnome 3 has been released, and after reading the announcement that it will 'by default' replace gnome2 in the near future, I'd like to ask if there are any plans on 'keeping' gnome2 around for use with arch linux.
I ask this, because I've been using gnome3 from the unstable repository, and know, that a lot of people are not going to like the change, especially because so called 'fall-back-mode' is just a joke, and gnome-shell, at least to me is plain broken. I'm merely voicing my opinion here, no flames :-P
But to have a choice would be great!
Tom