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Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the this-way-or-that-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Havoc Pennington, lead developer of GNOME, wants to fork GNOME 3. 'So the forces of existing userbase, the easiest-to-reach future userbase, cross-platform applications, and funded development efforts are strongly pulling GNOME 2 toward conservatism. I think GNOME 3 should be a fork for that reason.'" This has been a common practice for not only many open source projects, but proprietary systems such as Solaris for major revisions, so it's not as tumultous a change as the word "fork" may imply.

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  1. Translation by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darn those pesky users for making us stablize things instead of hacking cool new features! I mean, which would you rather have, a foot menu that works or spatial Nautilus?

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    1. Re:Translation by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Spatial Nautilus is the only file manager avaiable that works the way I want a file manager to work.

      You must be a GNOME developer. ;-D

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    2. Re:Translation by imsabbel · · Score: 4, Funny

      hm.
      The strange thing is that i remember this whole now "spacial" thing since windows 95.
      Back than it was called "why the fuck does this damn explorer open every folder in a new window" and was usually disabled by every computer literate after 2 hours....

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  2. Re:Don't call it Gnome 3... by masklinn · · Score: 4, Funny

    why would it? While the Gnome 2.x are clearly reserved for the currect gnome development, a major version change may mean several deep changes, and the creation of a "double tree" as the development of Gnome 2.x keeps on living during the birth and maturation of Gnome 3. Ever heard of Winamp3? (well, ok, it failed, but then we could get Gnome 5 couldn't we?)

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  3. So in other words... by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no fork.

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  4. Re:Don't call it Gnome 3... by double-oh+three · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could call it Gnom3?

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  5. Imagine it was a spoon instead of a fork by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh wait, there is no spoon

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  6. Re:Not always true by 680x0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hi Havoc,

    What about a similar but distinct name for the experimental version (ala Fedora from Redhat). Possible names:

    • Elf
    • Ogre
    • And, of course, the Slashdot favorite: Troll

    (By the way, I have your book on GTK app development... It's very good. Thanks.)