Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi Brian!

Am Donnerstag, den 30.12.2010, 13:03 -0600 schrieb Brian Cameron:
> For example, I have concerns about how GNOME 2.x is going to be
> maintained in the long run, and I think a lot of issues raised in this
> discussion relate to such concerns.  To me, it seems that GNOME 2.32
> and later 2.x releases were developed as transitional releases moving
> towards GNOME 3 without a clear roadmap for how GNOME 2 will be
> supported long-term.
> 
> To me it is not clear whether those who intend to deliver GNOME
> 2.x-based solutions should ship GNOME 2.30, 2.32, some random mismash
> of module versions that you are able to get working, or what.  It also
> is not clear what role(s) the GNOME community will play in helping
> different distros who ship and support GNOME 2 to work together and
> collaborate in that effort.
> 

GNOME 2.x will not get any more official support after the 2.32.1 relase
which already happened. Single module maintainers may decide (or have
already decided/done) to do more 2.32.x release to fix various bugs but
no more official releases are planned.

This is not different from GNOME 2.30 for example. Distros that ship
GNOME 2.30 (Ubuntu LTR for example) basically need to care themselves if
they need to backport patches from newer releases of fix things
themselves if it is specific to this GNOME release. GNOME never gave a
promise to support any release any longer than 6 months.

Despite that and this is what this thread is about, GNOME will maintain
a non-3D user-experience in the future which will likely use some
components of the GNOME 2.x stack but ported to GNOME 3 technologies (no
parallel installation required). Until now, this experience seems to end
up as metacity + gnome-panel + Applications. This is not a continuation
of GNOME 2.x even if a lot of code might be shared.

Answering parts of your questions: Distros should ship GNOME 2.32.1 if
they really want to continue shipping GNOME 2.

Regards,
Johannes