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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Au revoir, gnome-3.8
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:45:20
Message-Id: 5201A632.6000809@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Au revoir, gnome-3.8 by walt
1 On 07/08/13 03:38, walt wrote:
2 > I was so hot to prove to myself that I could do the Big Update on both
3 > systemd and openrc gentoo machines that I didn't spend much time actually
4 > *using* gnome-3.8 until yesterday.
5 >
6 > Have you ever lived or worked in a building during a big remodeling? With
7 > most of your living/working space completely (but temporarily) demolished?
8 >
9 > For me, that's gnome-3.8 :(
10 >
11 > I spent all day today reverting my main desktop from ~amd64 to amd64, and
12 > I'm happy to be back home in gnome2 :) I'm very grateful to the gentoo
13 > devs for keeping gnome2 available, BTW. Some distros don't give anyone
14 > that option.
15
16 that's only because gnome 3.8 hasn't been stabilized yet. as in, there
17 are no plans in keeping gnome 2.x available after gnome 3.8 stabilization.
18 propably not what you wanted to know, but that's just how it is...
19 try Xfce ;)

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