On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:25:29 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:45:40PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I wonder what the other linux distributions are doing in this regard, >> what the GNOME teams (Debian and upstream) think about it and what >> other desktop environments can be also considered as good options to be >> used for the default. >> > I always thought it would be a good idea to use XFCE instead of Gnome 3,
Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME (and the same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, there are more GNOME/KDE users out there than XFCE/LXDE/Razor-QT and more users means well probed software. To make a DE as a default for a distribution without being tested intensively can give a bad impression to newcomers. > but make it look like Gnome 2 (like Xubuntu does, or at least used to -- > I haven't used it in a while). It feels very at home for Gnome 2 users, > and I think it's important for Debian to provide some consistency to > users from one release to the next. I realize the Gnome upstream has > made this difficult recently... Which leads to another question: do you people seriously think there's any gain in promoting an old toolkit such as GTK+2 over GTK+3? If users don't like/don't want the new gnome-shell desktop paradigm, wouldn't be better to join forces with Cinnamon UI instead? Or looking for another alternatives to be the default? 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/k00ghi$t9u$7...@dough.gmane.org
