The OOo, LibreOffice Tale Should Be a Warning To Canonical, Other FOSS Projects

[Samuel Thurston]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe Mint 11 is going with GNOME 2.32 but I don't know if GNOME 2
> /has/ a future any more. 2.32 might be the last ever release of the
> 2.xx codebase. Perhaps it will be like KDE - where distros hung on to
> the aging 3.x codebase until the shiny new 4.x codebase matured a bit
> and people got used to it.


I think it's unlikely that GNOME 2 has a future as you mean it.  I do
suspect you're right though, that distributions will hang on until 3.x
is in a better state.

Personally I'm beginning to tire of GNOME.  What was once a reasonable
improvement over some of the available options *coughFVWMcough* has
become a bloated un-configurable nightmare.  I may head over to KDE
land for a while to see how things are over there.  I earnestly wish
that E17 was making more progress but I think it's taken too long to
get to where it was headed and now the train has left the station.