Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Bill O'Connor <billyoc gmail com>]

Josselin Mouette <joss debian org> writes:

> Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 15:22 -0500, William Jon McCann a écrit
> :
>> That simple JS based fallback panel/menubar idea is sounding better
>> and better... anyone want to give it a shot?
>
> This would be completely useless. Who would use that?
>
> Just because it is popular (and for good reasons), you can expect
> several distributions to keep on shipping the panel as long as
> technically feasible with their resources. Not as a fallback or a
> stripped down session, but as a full-fledged alternative to the GNOME
> 3 shell, that you can choose from GDM once installed.

You can also expect that installers won't be providing a choice between
version 2 and version 3 of GNOME, but rather a choice between
gnome-panel and gnome-shell, with gnome-panel possibly being the
default.