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On 02/12/2013 12:26 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded. |
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> Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone |
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> knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo? |
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Heh. That's a complicated question, and I'm ready to give you a complicated |
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answer but I probably can't stay awake that long :) |
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Most important: are you ready to suffer long hours of learning/debugging/hair- |
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pulling/screaming to help guide the future of gnome3? Big question, and I'm |
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still trying to decide for myself after months of not deciding :) |
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I loved gnome2 and I wish for the good old days because every step the gnome3 |
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devs have taken is a mystery to me. They probably have a grand vision for the |
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future of the gnome desktop, but it's been nothing but a PITA for me because |
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along the way they've removed some features from apps that I use everyday for |
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important stuff like, scheduling/keeping appointments on time, etc. |
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In my arrogant opinion, gnome3 is betaware (just-barely-beyond-alphaware) and |
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you should 'up'grade only if you're willing to live with that excitement. |
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One little tidbit of good news (IMO) is that the gnome3 devs have decided to |
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maintain a 'legacy' gnome desktop for those of us who don't like gnome-shell, |
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which I definitely don't (but Canek definitely does). |
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I suggest you try the latest gnome3 liveCD in a virtual machine so you don't |
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have to risk your current gnome2 install. |
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It's a big step, and one you may want to postpone if you're not ready for |
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hard work and big headaches. |
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IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :) |
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