[CentOS] Update to Gnome 3

[AJH]

Thanks a lot...
I think that Gnome 2 is already the best for my desktop, because I like
the Centos OS..therefore I could life with Gnome 2 :-)

Thanks a lot!

cheers

[ Andrew Wyatt <andrew at fuduntu.org> - 24.07.2013      08:36:40 ]:

> In addition to building GTK3, they would also have to update glib2, glibc,
> atk, and roughly a dozen or more additional packages to support just
> building base GNOME 3.
> 
> It would be a monumental change leaving them with a distribution that was
> no longer CentOS.
> 
> Just adding my $.02 in-case it helps.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/24/2013 06:44 AM, AJH wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > just a little question:
> > >
> > > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a
> > > Gnome 3?
> > >
> > > And if yes...how does this work?
> > >
> > > thanks a lot.
> >
> > There is no supported way to do this.  This would not be easy to
> > accomplish, but it would be theoretically possible.  You would have to
> > build gtk3 and then build all the gnome3 apps ... and then you would
> > have to rebuild all the CentOS-6.4 packages that depend on any of the
> > gnome2 development libraries with gnome3 as replacements.
> >
> > I would recommend that if you really MUST have gnome 3, you either use
> > gnome2 now and wait for RHEL-7 to be released (then we will release
> > CentOS-7 ... which will have gnome3) ... or that you instead use the
> > latest Fedora as your desktop (You can get Fedora 19 now ... Fedora 18
> > is also still supported for 6 or so months).
> >
> > Remember that base CentOS is not designed to have the latest and
> > greatest packages, it is designed to be stable and provide support for
> > the things it is released with for 10 years.
> >
> > That said, if there are a number of Developers out there who would be
> > interested in building gnome3 for the CentOS-6 branch, we do Special
> > Interest Groups to add things to CentOS.  The Xen4CentOS project is an
> > example of this.  If enough people, who have the knowledge and skill to
> > actually build gnome3 on CentOS-6, desire a new SIG to be created then
> > that can be done.  We would need some assurances that this SIG would be
> > there for the long haul and they would have at least one person from the
> > upstream Gnome Project in order to form.  If such a group did want to
> > form, the CentOS-Devel mailing list would be the place for it to happen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> >
> >
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thanks + bye ajh