My request to ubuntu developer team

[Liam Proven]

On 20 November 2011 04:22, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> 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

[1] "its next release"
[2] No, the *current* release, Mint 12, based on Ubuntu 11.04, uses
GNOME 2. Version 2.32, a newer version than Ubuntu (or Debian) ever
shipped.

> but it's unclear precisely what it's going to do, or how well,
> for the one after.

It's been announced now.

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?paged=4

The *next* version, Mint 13, which is not out yet, will use a custom
interface based around GNOME 3 and a lot of Shell Extensions to give
it something resembling a taskbar and a launch menu.

> 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.

Concur.

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