[arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

[Nephyrin Zey]

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