Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-11 Thread Brendan Long
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Nephyrin Zey wrote: > Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4 > situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when > moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...), I'm using the binary nv

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 04/10/2011 09:02 PM, Nephyrin Zey wrote: I think removing Gnome2 from arch's repositories would be a mistake. Even gentoo is maintaining gnome2 support until "At least Gnome 3.2". If myself and others volunteered to help maintain a [gnome2] repo, would it be considered for official mirrorage

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/4/10 Nephyrin Zey : > Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4 > situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when > moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...), and is > lacking basic features gnome 2 had. (sensors

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Nephyrin Zey
Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4 situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...), and is lacking basic features gnome 2 had. (sensors applet, startup application m

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Tom wrote: > So, now that Gnome 3 has been released, and after reading the announcement > that > it will 'by default' replace gnome2 in the near future, I'd like to ask if > there are any plans on 'keeping' gnome2 around for use with arch linux. > > I ask this, be

Re: [arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 13:47 +0200, Tom wrote: > So, now that Gnome 3 has been released, and after reading the announcement > that > it will 'by default' replace gnome2 in the near future, I'd like to ask if > there are any plans on 'keeping' gnome2 around for use with arch linux. > > I ask this,

[arch-general] Gnome3 and Gnome2

2011-04-10 Thread Tom
So, now that Gnome 3 has been released, and after reading the announcement that it will 'by default' replace gnome2 in the near future, I'd like to ask if there are any plans on 'keeping' gnome2 around for use with arch linux. I ask this, because I've been using gnome3 from the unstable repository