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Too many forks?Too many forks?Posted Jan 23, 2013 4:47 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)Parent article: SolusOS: The Consort Desktop Environment
How many forks of GNOME 2 do we need? The developers should understand that it's easier to merge the efforts now than later. The initial enthusiasm will go away over time. Spreading the effort between several forks will lead to wasted effort as those forks fail.
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Too many forks? Posted Jan 23, 2013 5:10 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> How many forks of GNOME 2 do we need?
This is not a fork of Gnome 2.
Too many forks? Posted Jan 23, 2013 9:39 UTC (Wed) by kugel (subscriber, #70540) [Link]
It's more like Cinnamon, a fork of Gnome 3. However, in contrast to Cinnamon it doesn't use Mutter as Window Manager, but it revives Metacity and maintains the classic mode to provide a Gnome 2-like experience.
However I think they should join forces on their Nautilus forks.
Too many forks? Posted Jan 23, 2013 11:17 UTC (Wed) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
It does sound a lot like Cinnamon, though I confess to not knowing the details of the Gnome world.
Are there many functional differences between Mutter and Metacity? I do hope they share lots of code and generally work together; the only way these "we don't like the Gnome 3 interface paradigm" forks are likely to last is if they work together (and I'm glad they both sound like they are keen to ensure they work with upstream libraries etc).
Too many forks? Posted Jan 23, 2013 10:58 UTC (Wed) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]
The answer is that we are good until we are running out of acronyms. "Consort Desktop Environment" = CDE = "Common Desktop Environment".
Oops. Maybe they have an ulterior motif.
Too many forks? Posted Jan 23, 2013 13:37 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Now all they need is to rename the Nautilus Extensions "Athena Widgets".
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