Getting rid of Unity?

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Pongo Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 11:42 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> <snippage>
>
>> Mint 11 will be out soon - based on Ubuntu 11.04 - but it might still
>> use GNOME 2.32, the last version of GNOME 2, which came out since
>> Ubuntu 10.10. Mint 13 will be the Ubuntu 11.10 version and it will use
>> GNOME 3 but configured with the classic GNOME 2 two-panel look.
>
> This is a surprise to me.  Do you have any reference for it?  The Mint
> developers (all four or five of them) are very closed-mouthed about
> their future releases.  They use a single bottom panel by default in the
> current release.  Making G3 look like G2 sounds like a terrible kludge.

It was on a Mint blog/news item. There's a GNOME 3 fallback/legacy
mode that's meant for graphic cards that can't handle GNOME shell.