SolusOS: The Consort Desktop Environment

SolusOS is a relatively new desktop distribution, based on Debian. The project has announced the Consort Desktop Environment, a fork of GNOME Classic. The pieces include consort-panel (gnome-panel), Athena (nautilus), consort-session (gnome-session-fallback), and Consortium (Metacity). "With Consortium, we forked Metacity 2.34. Basically its been a dead project for a while and needs some new life. Work is now underway to bring it up to GTK3/Cairo standards so that we can improve it. Fully antialiased window corners and plugins will be introduced, as well as extended theming. With this new DE, we still maintain total compatibility with the GNOME suite itself. We’re not touching core-libraries so you’ll be able to install our desktop on most distros with GTK3, and have no issues." The recent development release of SolusOS 2 Alpha 7 includes the young Consort DE.

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