Re: Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Josselin Mouette <joss debian org>]

Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 00:54 -0800, Sandy Armstrong a écrit :
> You may lose features in 3.0 *with* gnome-shell, and you may lose even
> more features in 3.0 *without* gnome-shell.  These features will take
> time to return in 3.2, 3.4, etc.
> 
> Folks who don't want to lose features like this should hold off on upgrading.

This answer is perfectly valid for those who compile their GNOME desktop
by hand.

For other people, it just moves the problem to the distributor. So, as a
distribution packager, my question is: is it possible to package GNOME 3
components without breaking the GNOME 2 experience?

If upgrading other major components to GNOME 3 breaks panel+metacity, we
are left with few choices.
     1. Packaging two versions of each component. Someone tried for the
        GNOME 1.2 → 2.0 transition, and this eventually failed
        miserably.
     2. Dropping panel+metacity. Not going to happen for at least a
        release cycle.
     3. Not packaging GNOME 3 for a while. Not what our users are
        expecting.

So, if by upgrading g-c-c, g-s-d, g-session and other major components
to 3.0, we are going to break g-panel, I’d like to know that now, not
when it is too late and 3.0 has already been released.

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