Re: GNOME 3 Marketing - GNOME Shell

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 21:37 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 11:52 -0400, Owen Taylor escribió:
> > We can also point to various alternative desktops built on GNOME
> > technology - whether that's the continuing ability to run the GNOME 2
> > panel and window manager, or to XFCE and LXDE.
>
> Scratch that, we either point people to GNOME Shell or GNOME Panel +
> Metacity. Our message is totally broken if we point people to other
> products :-).

Pointing people to GNOME 2 for a non-accelerated desktop is fine
as a stopgap, but it's only a short-term solution. It will bitrot
if nobody steps up to develop and maintain it.

If there's a long-term (> about 3 years) demand for this, people
may just have to look to other free software projects. Instead of
fighting that, maybe we should try to make friendly with a project
like XFCE. GNOME is bigger than the desktop. There's no reason we
can't give another project our blessings.

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SHaun