Many users hated it. Not even two years later, even GNOME’s programmers were wondering if their interface was “staring into the abyss?” Now, GNOME developers have woken up and are offering a way for GNOME users to go back to a GNOME 2.x style interface.
But is it too little, too late? Will GNOME actually be offering a real, return-to-the-past desktop interface?
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