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MALsPa wrote:Some of you will like this post by Ikey at the SolusOS forums:

Cinnamon is a Gnome Shell fork which will inevitably reduce Gnome + Mint compatibility in the future.
MATE will also suffer a bad fate imo because its a Gnome Fork.

We'll be using Gnome 3 classic mode with a lot of modifications. It will look and act exactly the same
as our Gnome 2 setup, requiring no hardware acceleration. I've begun porting the older panel/applet
libraries to use GTK3 and D-BUS meaning we won't loose any of the functionality previously found.

grizzler wrote:

MALsPa wrote:Some of you will like this post by Ikey at the SolusOS forums:

Cinnamon is a Gnome Shell fork which will inevitably reduce Gnome + Mint compatibility in the future.
MATE will also suffer a bad fate imo because its a Gnome Fork.

We'll be using Gnome 3 classic mode with a lot of modifications. It will look and act exactly the same
as our Gnome 2 setup, requiring no hardware acceleration. I've begun porting the older panel/applet
libraries to use GTK3 and D-BUS meaning we won't loose any of the functionality previously found.

Begun porting? Why? Vincent Untz, the original developer of the panels already did that around April last year. In what way would this new port be better?
I'm really honestly curious here, as I'm currently using LMDE with Gnome Classic and the panels and applets as they were ported by Vincent and I'm looking at a desktop which is almost indistinguishable from Gnome 2.

z06gal wrote:... Gnome 3 fallback session that will look and act like Gnome 2 ...

grizzler wrote:In what way would this new port be better?

The SolusOS team is pleased to announce the release of SolusOS 1.1. This release brings greater hardware support and newer application versions, as well as support for hybrid GPU’s, such as the NVIDIA Optimus. A new 3.3.6 kernel is at its core with the BFS patch, alongside the Gnome 2.30 Desktop Environment. Many new application versions are present.

Brief overview of software versions

• Firefox 12.0
  Thunderbird 12.0.1
  LibreOffice 3.5.4
  Linux Kernel 3.3.6(with BFS/preempt)
  Gnome 2.30
  Openshot 1.4.2
  Nautilus-Elementary
  PlayOnLinux 4.0.18
  VLC 2.0.1
  FirstRunWizard 0.8

Many new applications are available in the software repository.

About this release
The 1.1 series, although based on the Eveline repositories, is to be maintained separately from the 1.0 series. The 1.1 release brings newer hardware support, whereas the 1.0 should be used by most people and will be considered the legacy support series.

bimsebasse wrote:Getting more and more curious to try this out. Is it possible to add Gnome Shell or Cinnamon to SolusOS in any not too brutal-hacky way or is it Gnome 2 only?