On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: >>>> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>>> >>>>> I was under the mistaken impression that wheezy still had a usable >>>>> gnome, as opposed to sid which has "upgraded" to gnome3. >>>> Please, please.... don't confuse the terms :-) >>>> >>>> Repeat with me: >>>> >>>> "GNOME3 is not gnome-shell" >>>> >>>> >>> From http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell >>> >>> GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. >> >> But they (gnome3 and gnome-shell) both are different and separate >> things. >> >> GNOME2/3 are a whole DE while "gnome-panel" and "gnome-shell" are just >> the UI (user interfaces), meaning that you can have GNOME3 with gnome- >> panel, you are not sticked to use the new UI at all (see the fallback >> mode). >> >> > Right. But the concept of separating the DE and the UI is new with the > "newfangled" Gnome. Even without the new UI the new DE is hard to > swallow, similar to the new GDM (GDM3) which in one swoop eliminated all > the niceties of GDM.
It's not a new thingy, gnome-shell is just a replacement for gnome-panel, nothing more and nothing less. GNOME2 had also an UI that was called gnome-panel, it has been always there although we did not notice :-) Basically, the names of the components can be "permuted" as follows: GNOME2 → GNOME3 gnome-panel → gnome-shell metacity → mutter Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.05.15.13...@gmail.com
