Well, well, well... what do you know, after all the fuss about the GNOME Fallback mode being removed from the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment, it looks like the GNOME developers decided to implement a similar mode for all you GNOME 2 nostalgics out there. Yes, come an get the good news, as the GNOME 3.8 desktop environment will have ... (read more)
Matthias Clasen reports in a blog post that the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment will receive numerous practical features designed to convert even more people to the modern GNOME desktop experience. This piece of news is part of the same blog post written by Matthias Clasen, in which he reports that the GNOME Fallback mode, or... (read more)
A few weeks back GNOME developers announced that GNOME 3.8 would no longer include the fallback mode. When users roared up, developers found a way to co-exist peacefully with them - a fallback-like mode made mostly of specialized extensions. Matthias Clasen blogged today of some of the progress of what he now dubs GNOME Legacy.
Even if GNOME 3.6 has not yet been released, the GNOME developers published some of the features that will be implemented in the next major release of the desktop environment, GNOME 3.8.
I've been on 13.04 since alpha and have gotten really used to gnome fallback with compiz again (it wasn't as well evolved when I switched to Gnome shell in the first place). I have set this up the way I like and am now afraid of the next or second next update dropping beloved fallback mode.
Moving forward, what are my best options in your eyes? Never update gnome from now on?
After installing F18, we got problems with remote logins: To have a usable GNOME 3 desktop, fallback mode has to be enabled (System Settings > Details > Graphics > Forced Fallback Mode => ON). Otherwise, the desktop (background, application windows, ...) is scrambled.
A quanto pare quello che era stato da troppo tempo rimandato, per le sorti di un desktop environment intero, saremo destinati a vederlo presto: a quanto pare infatti in GNOME 3.8 sarà rimossa la funzionalità di fallback, che consentiva, oltre che eseguire GNOME per chi non aveva hardware molto potente, anche di utilizzare GNOME in maniera “classica” per i non amanti di GNOME Shell.
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Gnome shell is the user interface for Gnome Desktop Environment, after the version 3.0 i.e they are based on GTK 3.0, written in C and Javascript. Ubuntu 11.10 beta version was released yesterday, and if you are an enthusiastic Ubuntu user, who love experiments; then probably you are running Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), Right?
The GNOME developers announced last evening, November 12, the immediate availability for download of the stable GNOME Shell 3.6.2 user interface for the GNOME 3 desktop environment. GNOME Shell 3.6.2 is the second maintenance release for the GNOME Shell 3.6 UI, which is part of the GNOME 3.6.2 desktop environment update, due for relea... (read more)
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