Re: [Hampshire] "Gnome 2 is dead" (Was Re: Ubuntu Unity - Da…

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Author: Ally Biggs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] "Gnome 2 is dead" (Was Re: Ubuntu Unity - Dash - context lists)
Haven't the old gnome devs created mate?

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On 1 Oct 2012, at 23:17, "Andy Smith" <andy@???> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Vic wrote:
>>
>>> GNOME 2 is dead.
>>
>> ...And looking remarkably sprightly on my Fedora 16 laptop...
>
> But it is the case that upstream is not developing it anymore, isn't
> it?
>
> Also I have seen the fork of Gnome "classic" (I forget its name now)
> derided on the debian-devel list as being "generated by sed", as in
> they ran sed over the Gnome code base to rename everything to their
> new name, but without having any actual developers to carry the
> project on.
>
> From all of that I was under the impression that "sticking with
> Gnome Classic" was not really a long-term option, it would be either
> Unity, Gnome 3 or a completely different desktop environment.
>
> Is this not the case?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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