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GNOME 3.x Will Bring Back Some GNOME 2 Features

Posted by tracyanne on · 2 comments
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Earlier this month it was decided that GNOME 3.8 would get rid of the GNOME Shell Fallback mode used for running the desktop environment in a way similar to the GNOME 2 "classic" environment while also not requiring any 3D GPU/driver configuration. Earlier today there was basically a call for forking the GNOME Classic/Fallback code so it could live on, but now it's been announced that some of the user-interface/experience elements will be brought to the GNOME 3.x world in a manner that's more easy for users to optionally enable...

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Hmm, seems like someone over at Gnome is actually listening to users for a change. But, I won't hold my breath until I see some of these plans come to fruition.
They have wasted hundreds, thousands of man hours removing all that stuff, now they are going to spend even more hundreds or thousands of man hours putting it back, are you sure the GNOME project isn't run by the government.

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