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Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power usersMena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power usersPosted Nov 12, 2012 7:43 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users by cmccabe Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users
Yes, the iguru posting was deeply insightful, and many of the comments too.
Maybe forking Gnome 3 would have a better outcome than MATE, because it wouldn't seem to have a mandate to stay exactly the same. (Of course lots of things could be improved in Gnome 2.) I hoped Cinnamon was that fork, but it appears meant to surf on top of Gnome 3. Maybe they can still rescue useful components as the Gnome crew retires them.
The GTK3 problem makes it hard to keep a stable theming platform.
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Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 12, 2012 15:27 UTC (Mon) by Company (guest, #57006) [Link]
If you could chose between a stable theming platform that nobody understands, doesn't provide alpha transparency, uses an arcane syntax and is crash-prone and a powerful machinery built on standards that is working to give you the ability to tune everything, which one would you chose?
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 12, 2012 17:30 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Are you suggesting the latter actually exists?
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 12, 2012 19:35 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] It's in the works. You can chip in, if you like.
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 13, 2012 17:14 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>It's in the works. You can chip in, if you like.
In other words, 'no'.
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Posted Nov 12, 2012 19:48 UTC (Mon) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link]
AFAIK Cinnamon is a real fork, not a dressed up Gnome 2 look-alike (that was LM MGSE, where they used extensions to mimick a Gnome 2 environment based on Gnome Shell). As you can read in the iguru post, they suffer from the current GTK3 instability, true, but otoh the Linux Mint RC is just now out and Cinnamon 1.6 looks sweet:
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_nadia_whatsnew.php
Really looking forward to this release :)
Rehdon
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