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GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode

Posted by timothy on from the g'day-mate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via LXer, an article at Phoronix tells of GNOME's plans to eliminate 'fallback mode' (GNOME classic) in the 3.8 release."

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  1. Re:And that will also mark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might be interested in this GNOME 2 fork

  2. Re:idiots by OolimPhon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Er, except that Debian is moving to Gnome 3 with Wheezy.

    Tried a test installation prior to planning a site upgrade. WTF? DO NOT LIKE.

    Looked around the Debian forums. Replies to "Can we have Gnome 2 back?" are met with "Why don't you help make Gnome 3 better instead?"

    DO NOT WANT.

    Tried Mate but it isn't ready for prime time yet, too many holes. Ended up with LXDE instead, adequate.

  3. Re:Gnome: I never got the hype or the recent rage by Jahava · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not much else to do but agree. However, you should really give KDE4 another shot. Ever since KDE4.5 or so, it has been a fully-usable (albeit heavy) desktop environment. It's achieved the level of maturity and configurability I've always associated with the KDE3 line, and has added several features that are genuinely useful (such as window grouping, tiling support, a full semantic desktop, and several powerful UI scripting techniques), as well as the traditional KDE integration technologies. After some early 4.x struggles, I'm once again in love with the full KDE user experience.

    I've done my tour of GNOME2, XFCE, KDE3, Enlightenment, xmonad, GNOME3, Unity, and KDE4, and I would, for primary desktop purposes, choose KDE4 without hesitation at the moment. Definitely worth giving it another shot if you haven't already.