My request to ubuntu developer team

[Avi Greenbury]

Alan McKay wrote:

> Incidentally, all the options they did give me I tried, and they were
> all buggy as hell on my relatively new ASUS box and caused frequent
> periods of 10 second hangs on the machine. 

Did you file any bugs?

> If Mint gets rid of this then I'm gone from Ubuntu ...

By most accounts, mint maintains Gnome 2.x for at least it's next
release, but it's unclear precisely what it's going to do, or how well,
for the one after. Everyone banking on Gnome 2.x is going to hit the
same problem - that the Gnome foundation has stopped maintaining it.

Perhaps someone will pick it up and it wont fall to the same fate as
the KDE 3.x project of the same nature did.

Personally, if I really wanted Gnome 2.0 and rather liked Ubuntu, I'd
give XFCE a go - it's one package (xubuntu-desktop) away, and doesn't
require that you change anything. It's not really Gnome 2.0, but it
shares a lot of the characteristics and behaviour of it. Probably worth
a pop.


-- 
Avi