> I personnally totally saw it as a different project as gnome 2 didn't become obsolete immediately Yeah it did. They announced gnome 3 and deprecated 2 on the

> I personnally totally saw it as a different project as gnome 2 didn't become obsolete immediately Yeah it did. They announced gnome 3 and deprecated 2 on the same day, and seemed to have made the deliberate choice to not allow them to coexist. As soon as your distro moved, bam, you were done. > Mate&Cinnamon forks took over so quickly After some months. This stuff was not there on day 1. In the mean time, those of us who did not want to work the way Gnome 3 decided we should, had to find an alternative. And when we found a good one (Xfce for me), we stuck with it.