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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a gnome2 fork - but the developer went AWOL. :(

And I can't remember the site, so I can't verify if he's back (this was about 2-3 months ago)

Cheers,
James Gifford

On Aug 4, 2011, at 18:45, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> 
>> My thoughts exactly. Remember KDE 4? There's still a thriving
>> community around it, even after the months of complaints from various
>> users and figureheads.
>> 
>> Change is happening, and if you don't like it, you don't have to
>> accept it -- just pick another desktop environment/window
>> manager/browser/whatever. You have the freedom to choose what you want
>> to use.
>> 
>> Personally, I use Unity on the desktop and love it, but on my netbook
>> I've got LXDE (Lubuntu) just because I like it more on my netbook.
>> I've got no arguments to convince anyone to use either of those
>> systems, I just know that they work well for me.
> 
> The important thing is that innovation is happening!  GNOME 3 is
> targeted toward tablets, so it isn't surprising that it doesn't work
> as well (for some people) for existing computing tasks.  Anyway,
> options are simply good.  One person's particular preferences aren't
> really that significant; although in this case, they may make the
> GNOME people try harder to fix the usability problems they've now
> created, which in the end is a very good thing.
> 
> As an aside, I think a GNOME 2 fork would actually be interesting.
> Keep the competition alive.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
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