On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:59 PM, isdtor@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