Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318697325 4385 84.45.235.129 (15 Oct 2011 16:48:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:48:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8823 On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:15:07 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote: > Brave man. It will be interesting to see what 3.2 is like. I'll probably > install that, or more likely 3.3, when it comes out, just to see how > things are progressing. > According to Gnome.org, there is no 3.3 except as a bugfix/development/ unstable version. The next major release will be 3.4 which seems to have a roadmap full of builtins that IMO should be applications. I get the strong impression that the project is totally fixated on shiny,shiny and thinks that usability is boring. > I am also expecting a lot of GUI and application developers to jump ship > from GNOME to XFCE, and so a surge in development for the latter. For > example, there is not currently a maintained or integrated > Exposé/Scale-like window switcher for XFCE, but i anticipate that there > will be before too long. > IIRC XFCE is the default window manager for VNC. If so, I've used it but don't particularly like it. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |