Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 13:09 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're
> catching us at a bad time - we are really close to UI freeze and a lot
> of us are working flat out on that. I personally don't have much time
> to spare on mailing lists right now. :)
>
> Can you explain what the GNOME 2 sub-project would actually look like?
> It's hard to respond without knowing details about how it would
> actually work. I understand that you are proposing to utilise some
> GNOME 3 modules, but how would it differ? Would it have a 3.x
> gnome-control-center? Would it have a shell? If not, which pieces
> would you use instead? Would you expect the GNOME project to make
> regular GNOME 2 releases alongside GNOME ones? Would we work to ensure
> we produce quality GNOME 2 releases as well as GNOME 3 releases? How
> would we market these two experiences? What would we recommend to
> distributions?

The main question for me would be, why would we want a "GNOME 2"-like
sub-project in GNOME when we dropped support for a very similar
interface, the fallback mode.