[Discuss] GNOME 3.14 in RHEL 7.2

[meg ford]

Yeah, my guess would be that it's at least partly because of the High DPI
stuff, and the Wayland support. Of course that's speculation on my part...

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Bonnie King <misterbonnie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting. I guess API changes are forcing their hand a bit as well
> as people wanting to run RHEL on Apple crap.
>
> I guess if they're going to lock into a version for the next 5+ (?)
> years, 3.8 is not gonna work out and it's early enough in 7 to change.
> I don't really know, but I doubt 7 is well deployed, yet. All those
> sysops gotta learn systemd first.
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014, at 01:18 PM, Freddy Martinez wrote:
> >> Inb4 nixternal starts talking about KDE.
> >>
> >> There are no details in this bug report. Does anyone know why RH wants
> >> to do this?
> >>
> >> FM
> >
> > Here's a more detailed bug report on the matter:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109302
> >
> > It looks like High DPI support, better support from extensions.gnome.org
> > (not sure how many 3.8-compatible extensions are out there), as well as
> > a few others, are the main reasons.
> >
> > Really, though, one of the biggest reasons* to rebase is that GNOME 3.10
> > included a preview release of GNOME Sound Recorder. That application is
> > a big "want" for enterprise and enthusiast users*.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > * This is what Meg Ford says.  ;)
> >
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