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Bug 689234 - Add a new mode for 'GNOME Classic'
Add a new mode for 'GNOME Classic'
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.7.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-28 18:03 UTC by Debarshi Ray
Modified: 2012-12-11 00:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Debarshi Ray 2012-11-28 18:03:36 UTC 
If we end up implementing 'GNOME Classic' as a separate session, then it might make sense to add a new mode for that.

(Personally, I think 'classic' is a bad choice for a name. Till the time we have a better option, I am using 'foo' to represent this mode.)
Comment 1 Debarshi Ray 2012-11-28 18:39:36 UTC 
There is some initial code in the wip/classic branch:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/log/?h=wip/classic
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2012-12-01 13:53:33 UTC 
Don't call it GNOME classic please, it isn't "GNOME classic". "Old school" or something to that effect would be better fitting, showing that it isn't the original mode, just a reimplementation of it.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2012-12-03 04:49:31 UTC 
some synonyms:

age-old, aged, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, creaky, early, elderly, fossil, hoary, moth-eaten, obsolete, old goat, old-fashioned, older, oldie, out-of-date, outmoded, primal, primeval, primordial, relic, remote, rusty, superannuated, timeworn, venerable,

'Moth-eaten GNOME' ? I could go for that
though 'Old goat' has a certain ring to it as well.
Comment 4 Debarshi Ray 2012-12-03 09:19:14 UTC 
Antique or legacy sound good to me.
Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-12-03 20:25:09 UTC 
Retro!
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-12-03 20:45:40 UTC 
Old-fashioned! Nostalgic!
Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-12-03 20:49:01 UTC 
just noticed matthias already said old-fashioned, so one more:

Traditional! 

Okay, i'm done bike shedding.
Comment 8 Florian Müllner 2012-12-03 20:56:00 UTC 
gnome 95!
Comment 9 Bastien Nocera 2012-12-04 07:11:16 UTC 
"Remastered", "Remixed" or similar is what comes to mind.
Comment 10 Matthias Clasen 2012-12-04 17:48:20 UTC 
So, here's a proposal, to stop 'classic' from getting stuck: While we're working out what we're building (and what we're going to call it), how about a code name.

I'll just throw one out here: Tiktaalik

That seems somewhat fitting...
Comment 11 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-12-04 17:55:03 UTC 
"""
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it.
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it.

Tiktaalik. Tiktaalik.
"""

I like it.
Comment 12 Jeremy Bicha 2012-12-06 00:20:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> gnome 95!

What about GNOME 2000? What's more nostalgic than when people thought adding 2000 to a product name made it sound so futuristic? And it's like GNOME 2 just with more zero's.

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_(drink)
Comment 13 Giovanni Campagna 2012-12-10 23:23:32 UTC 
Just to know, is this bug for anything but bikeshedding on the name?
I'm saying this because we're keeping shell changes at a very generic level, and gnome-2.42 (= 3.8) is happening in the shell extensions repo.
Comment 14 Debarshi Ray 2012-12-10 23:57:39 UTC 
Yes, this bug is useless now. Other commits / bugs against gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extensions and gnome-tweak-tool have obsoleted this.
Comment 15 Debarshi Ray 2012-12-11 00:06:11 UTC 
Please use bug 685744 for tracking progress of this new mode.