[CentOS] Update to Gnome 3

Dave Johansen davejohansen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 28 21:20:53 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:59 PM, <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Wyatt top-posted:
> > 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.
>
> And that's not where it ends. A potentially much more fundamental and
> system-changing requirement may be systemd, which other distros already
> require for Gnome 3, e.g. Gentoo.
>
> Johnny Hughes writes:
> > 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)
>
> I'm not looking forward to this. RedHat needs to undertake major efforts
> to make this travesty of a desktop usable or we will be looking at
> massive retraining costs for hundreds of thousands, if not more, users
> across the board.

That's the concept behind the classic mode that was added as part of
Gnome 3.8 and will be the default desktop on RHEL 7. Its user
experience is right in line with Gnome 2 and isn't too much off a
shift for existing users of RHEL, so I don't think there's any reason
to get out the pitchforks.

Dave



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