GNOME panel get's a new maintainer

[kansasnoob]

Jonathan Carter, who also helps maintain Edubuntu, seems to have a very sensible approach to maintaining gnome-panel, metacity, etc:

http://jonathancarter.org/2013/02/05...anel-is-alive/

Of course we'll have to wait for the 13.10 dev cycle to see how things pan out

I'd hope that this, along with the new GNOME Classic session, can once and for all put to rest most of the hand-wringing and rumors

[jbicha]

Jonathan is one of the two primary Edubuntu maintainers and uses GNOME Fallback as his primary desktop. It's important for Edubuntu that there is a well-supported desktop that works without 3D acceleration for LTSP deployments.

[kansasnoob]

Jonathan is one of the two primary Edubuntu maintainers and uses GNOME Fallback as his primary desktop. It's important for Edubuntu that there is a well-supported desktop that works without 3D acceleration for LTSP deployments.

In deed

And, as he mentions in that blog post, Edubuntu offers the fallback session as an option during installation:

edubuntu_fallback.jpg

They also have some really cool additional installation options very specific to Edubuntu:

Screenshot from 2012-07-31 12_17_33.jpg

I actually maintain just a few PC's that run Edubuntu and IMHO it's one of Ubuntu's greatest achievements ........... something that's too seldom mentioned

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Getting a bit off-topic here but I've even thought our eventual GNOME remix could have a long term goal of offering similar installation options - NOT the choice of using the fallback session - but maybe the choice of using almost 100% GNOME apps vs. using almost 100% Ubuntu default apps on a gnome-session base. But that's a dream that belongs in the long term goal category

[arpanaut]

Isn't it more appropriately a gnew maintainer, rather than a knew maintainer.
Or did you just mean new maintainer?

Sorry!

[kansasnoob]

Isn't it more appropriately a gnew maintainer, rather than a knew maintainer.
Or did you just mean new maintainer?

Sorry!

Yes it should have been "new" .......... I need a new and better brain

[mörgæs]

Fixed.

[claracc]

This guy, Jonathan Carter, seems to have a very sensible approach to maintaining gnome-panel, metacity, etc:

http://jonathancarter.org/2013/02/05...anel-is-alive/

Of course we'll have to wait for the 13.10 dev cycle to see how things pan out

I'd hope that this, along with the new GNOME Classic session, can once and for all put to rest most of the hand-wringing and rumors

I am glad to hear this. I think gnome fallback session with metacity deserves to have future. Thanks to the mantainer and thanks to kansasnoob for the information.

[kansasnoob]

Fixed.

Thank you

[forcecore]

I agree too, i do not know why everyone wants those GPU based desktops, yes they have lot of effects but Gnome Fallback is so easy to use for every people, 95% my Ubuntu installations and quess what....they wanted get rid of Unity and use fallback. So i hope fallback mode will be maintained forever. Even on my i5 desktop fallback is faster than Unity, even power wattage meter shows smaller power usage. Lets hope Ubuntu maintainers will pull fallback in 13.10 repos too because it is needed by lot of people.

[EgoGratis]

I am quite happy ATM with Unity and features Compiz provides to me and i liked GNOME 2 era.

GNOME has more features compared to other light (2D) DE's and for sure having "GNOME 2" experience on "GNOME 3" could work in the future for some users that don't want to use Unity or GnomeShell but would like to use GNOME anyway. It would probably be nice if developers working on a lot of similar projects would join forces and then the result would probably be more work done and less burden on one or two developers working on individual projects.