Re: Gnome 3 and computer shut down

[Rowland Penny <hortimech f2s com>]

On 20/06/11 12:26, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:08:14AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > had.  It seems we are going to have to wait until at least gnome 3.2 to
> > get those applets back.  That's when it should have been called gnome
> > 3.0, again, IMHO.
> Applets are only available in fallback mode. Some weren't ready for 3.0,
> but that wasn't a blocker for 3.0; main focus for 3.0 is GNOME shell,
> not fallback mode.
> It would've been really nice to have gnome-applets ported, but there
> just was not enough time and everything else was good enough.
Ok I can understand that
> Having the exact same features while the focus is different also is
> unrealistic. GNOME shell has a different design goal in mind.
Yes it seems to be aimed at touchscreens, totally useless for a 
desktop/laptop computer
> You can
> disagree with that, but release wise there is nothing wrong with how 3.0
> was handled.
You are quite right I do disagree. In my opinion there is plenty wrong 
with the way it was handled.
> This from a/my release-team perspective.
>
> Not talking about the direction of GNOME or how GNOME shell is designed
> btw. I can see there is some disagreement about that :P
I can see that you are a master of understatements.



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