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

[Yaro Kasear]

It is against the Arch way when it's not even going to be actively maintained 
upstream for much longer. GNOME 2's got maybe 6-8 months at most before 
it's support is gone upstream, and Arch isn't there to act as a "historical 
archive" of old desktop environments. Especially in the likely event GNOME 2 
will stop working right when the inevitable library bumps occur after its 
support drop.

Instead of complaining at the Arch developers for doing their job, you could 
just switch to Xfce or LXDE if you want a GTK+ 2 based desktop environment. 
Though I personally think GTK+ 2 is visibly showing its age. I wish there were 
more Qt-based DE's out there, though I do think KDE is pretty good.