From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:23:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511B072B.5030106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1302121523050.22312@scurvy>
On 02/12/2013 12:26 PM, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> GNOME 3.6 is not masked in Gentoo, just keyworded.
>
> Apologies for the slight thread hijack, but I've been curious if anyone
> knows the current state of Gnome 3 in Gentoo?
Heh. That's a complicated question, and I'm ready to give you a complicated
answer but I probably can't stay awake that long :)
Most important: are you ready to suffer long hours of learning/debugging/hair-
pulling/screaming to help guide the future of gnome3? Big question, and I'm
still trying to decide for myself after months of not deciding :)
I loved gnome2 and I wish for the good old days because every step the gnome3
devs have taken is a mystery to me. They probably have a grand vision for the
future of the gnome desktop, but it's been nothing but a PITA for me because
along the way they've removed some features from apps that I use everyday for
important stuff like, scheduling/keeping appointments on time, etc.
In my arrogant opinion, gnome3 is betaware (just-barely-beyond-alphaware) and
you should 'up'grade only if you're willing to live with that excitement.
One little tidbit of good news (IMO) is that the gnome3 devs have decided to
maintain a 'legacy' gnome desktop for those of us who don't like gnome-shell,
which I definitely don't (but Canek definitely does).
I suggest you try the latest gnome3 liveCD in a virtual machine so you don't
have to risk your current gnome2 install.
It's a big step, and one you may want to postpone if you're not ready for
hard work and big headaches.
IOW, try gnome3 on a virtual machine first :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 17:02 [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 17:36 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-01-30 17:48 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 17:52 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-30 17:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 18:04 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-30 18:13 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 18:32 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 18:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-30 18:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 18:58 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-30 19:22 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 20:22 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-30 21:14 ` Alecks Gates
2013-01-31 5:35 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-31 5:48 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-31 23:17 ` Alecks Gates
2013-01-31 23:27 ` Alecks Gates
2013-02-01 4:27 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-31 9:13 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-31 18:06 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-31 18:17 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-31 18:26 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-31 18:35 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-01-31 18:54 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-01 18:37 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-01 19:39 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-02 10:10 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-06 7:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-06 11:58 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-06 15:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-06 17:18 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-06 17:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-09 18:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-09 19:44 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-09 23:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-09 23:26 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-10 10:09 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-10 10:35 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-10 14:41 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-10 19:32 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-10 19:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-11 9:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-11 21:03 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-11 21:19 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-11 21:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-11 21:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-13 20:32 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-13 21:08 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-13 21:36 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-16 13:02 ` [gentoo-user] systemd and gnome: suspending twice, solved Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-13 18:17 ` [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-13 20:01 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-13 20:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-03-04 19:42 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-03-04 20:07 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-03-05 6:36 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-03-05 6:40 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-03-05 7:49 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-03-05 7:44 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-03-09 16:23 ` [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 SOLVED Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-02-12 20:26 ` [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 Randy Barlow
2013-02-13 3:23 ` walt [this message]
2013-02-13 4:13 ` [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3] Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-13 10:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-13 11:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2013-02-13 12:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-13 14:12 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-02-13 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-13 17:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-02-13 19:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-13 19:32 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-02-13 17:50 ` [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-02-13 23:54 ` Alecks Gates
2013-02-14 0:11 ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-02-14 3:12 ` Allan Gottlieb
2013-02-13 18:23 ` Yohan Pereira
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2013-02-13 6:23 Randy Barlow
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