[Trisquel-devel] Future Migration to Gnome 3?

Diego Cristóbal Ramírez Torales nismo685 at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 8 17:55:24 CEST 2011


On 08/06/11 02:05, Gaurav Pareek wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 10:14 AM, Andrew Ter-Grigoryan wrote:
>> Soon, Gnome 2 will cease to be supported and become obsolete, or at best
>> there will be a fork project with a fraction of the development
>> resources and funding. Also, Gnome Shell is apparently a highly
>> attractive and (once you get accustomed to it) intuitive interface, and
>> goes well with anything from a tablet to a traditional desktop PC. I
>> think that by the next Trisquel release we should switch over to Gnome
>> 3. It could be tweaked to something in between the default interface and
>> the Windows-like one we have now, keeping the current icon set and
>> window theme, and putting the panel at the bottom and making it mostly
>> like the current one.
>>
>> Also, as netbooks become much more powerful in the coming years,
>> Trisquel Mini should be phased out. We won't have to worry about
>> spreading ourselves too thin.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
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> I've been working on gtk3 themes for the past few days and i'm 
> currently working on porting the default Trisquel theme to gtk3(see 
> http://grvrulz.deviantart.com). I'm also testing the gnome3 fallback 
> interface(which uses gnome-panel 3 and unlike gnome-shell, does not 
> require 3d acceleration), with compiz and metacity. I guess i'll come 
> up with some nice results soon.
> All testing is done on parabola GNU/Linux, but everything will be 
> easily applicable on trisquel(5.5).
>
> Regards
> grv
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People
     Are thou sure about Gnome3 ? I think Unity consume a heavy amount 
of resources, and Is so early to make the step to a experimental 
software (I know Gnome3 has been released as stable, but, how stable is 
?)... Will be good read more points about the Gnome3 and Unity

PD:Sorry for the bad english...


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