On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:09 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > 2011/1/3 Mario Blättermann <mariobl gnome org> > Am Montag, den 03.01.2011, 13:37 -0500 schrieb Owen Taylor: > > There will also be some people that want to use gnome-panel > because > > they aren't ready to change. While we want to encourage > people who > > have capable hardware to update and use the new > experience, there > > are multiple advantages to accommodating such users in > fallback > > mode as well rather than telling them to use GNOME 2. > > > Im afraid we will have a lot of more people who use the > "fallback mode" > or "classic mode" than the new desktop shell. Keep in mind, a > Linux or > BSD distribution will be installed on older hardware in many > cases, > because the newest Windows doesn't run properly anymore. On my > five > years old IBM Thinkpad T41 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 I > cannot use > gnome-shell. Only black windows... On the other hand, Compiz > with most > of its nice features works fine. That's why we *must* provide > an > appropriate clutter-less fallback mode for the GNOME 3 > lifecycle (yes, > for the whole cycle!). What about to have a gnome-shell with a > fallback > mode which works (with function constraints) with the good old > metacity > or other window managers? And keeping gnome-applets as > gnome-shell-applets? Otherwise, we will get rid of a lot of > users. > > Gosh, so you believe that the majority of the Linux desktop market > consists of old platforms? Gnome-shell should work on any machine > that is about 5 years old. After that even things like flash and web > browsers are going to be dog slow. You simply would not use the > primary application, the Internet in any appreciable fashion. > Hopefully, said users are not some old grey beard still running > around using gopher, and lynx to browse the web. :-) > I'm not sure what's your point is - could you clarify this paragraph? Regards
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