On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 10:42 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > This is an interesting idea, but I have a few questions about it. I > don't know how well it's supported. From what I can tell, it's based on > GTK+2 and I don't know how well that will continue to be supported.
Poorly, is my outsider impression. As you say, they've taken the Gnome 2 code from *before* the Gnome devs started cleaning it up for Gnome 3, so they've basically committed themselves to either maintaining the worst parts of a codebase abandoned by it's creators, or repeating all the effort the Gnome devs have already done in cleaning it up. Either way, they've made a lot of work for themselves, and they're a small team. They're also basically stuffed as the world moves away from X, since that old code is never going to run on Wayland or Mir. A smarter approach would have been to simply take Gnome 3 and fork only the bits like the panel and metacity, *after* they'd been cleaned up and ported to Gtk3 - thereby allowing them to share 99% of their codebase with the upstream developers. I believe there is another project that's done just that, but I can't remember the name. Google suggests I might be thinking of SolusOS? Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
