GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

[Daniel Chen]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Francis Bolduc <fbolduc at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... I'm a software developer and I like to have
> updated development tools every 6 months ...
> I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my
> needs. What am I going to do in 6 months?

A false dichotomy. You have numerous choices if you wish to stay with
Ubuntu and its derivatives:

* Don't upgrade
* Install a parallel desktop environment, e.g., kubuntu-desktop, and
evaluate its workflow with your current one
* Pin (apt->dpkg) your desktop environment and perform an upgrade
* Upgrade only your development tools

Granted, some of those options require more intervention.

-Dan