From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:56:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu939d76bsl.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111128214641.GB728@eisen.lan> (Frank Steinmetzger's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:48:11 +0100")
On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Though I don’t use either Gnome version, I believe that we are quite safe with
> Gentoo for a while longer, as compared with most other distros out there. At
> least that is what I remember from my KDE experience; (almost) all distros
> jumped on the KDE 4 waggon as soon as the still unusable 4.1 and let KDE 3
> fall instantly without alternative.
>
> OTOH, Gentoo remained with KDE3 as the main version for a comparably
> long time, and I am very grateful for that. And even after KDE4 became
> “stable” in portage, we could still use both in parallel for even
> longer before KDE3 was finally removed from portage. I think I made
> the final and complete switch as late as 4.3 or 4.4.
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-903280.html, which I believe is
a good read.
One quote
5. Will gnome-2 still be supported?
For a limited time. We will support gnome-2 until gnome-3.x is
stabilized. After gnome-3.x is marked stable, which will happen at
some point in 2012, gnome-2 will be removed. We do not have the
man-hours needed to properly support two major versions of gnome.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-28 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 20:07 [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed walt
2011-11-26 20:45 ` Vishnupradeep
2011-11-26 21:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2011-11-26 22:37 ` [gentoo-user] " covici
2011-11-26 21:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-26 22:11 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-26 23:36 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-11-28 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-28 21:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-11-28 23:56 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2011-11-27 1:07 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-27 11:49 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
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