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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- thanks + bye ajh