[arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

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On 04/10/2011 07:04 PM, Auguste Pop wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Oon-Ee Ng<ngoonee.talk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Or you could just save yourself the hassle and just switch over to
>> XFCE, awesomewm, the possibilities are endless. More productive than
>> pining over a DE that's now officially dead (dying).
>>
>
> xfce depends on gtk2. when gnome3 hits the repo, i assume gtk3 will
> deprecate gtk2, which will in turn deprecate xfce. it is possible to
> maintain gtk2 and gtk3 at the same time, but using a desktop
> environment depending on a deprecated library seems not so good.
> anyway, we are still using tons of applications depending on the
> deprecated python2. :p


gtk2 is not deprecated. it won't get any features but is still maintained

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