On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:50:57 +0100 Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 20:21 +0100, bernd a écrit : > > As you know, Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome-Shell with the look & feel & > > workflow of Gnome2, developed and maintained by Clement Lefebvre > > "Clem" from Linux-Mint. > > > > At the moment, already rpms and debs for other distributions like > > Ubuntu, > > Fedora, Arch and OpenSuse are built: > > http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61 > > > > In my opinion, Cinnamon will be a sustainable alternative for > > ex-Gnome2-users, > > who don't like the "smartphone-look" of Gnome3 > > It will be sustainable when it will have been sustained a bit, don't you > think ? ( because mint already announced first to add js extension to > gnome shell, then to fork gnome 2, then to develop a new DE , so maybe > they will do another thing next week ). > > ( and personally, I do have both a smartphone and gnome 3, and I wonder > if people who say there is a smartphone look to gnome 3 have a > smartphone, cause mine do not really look like gnome 3 ) > > I do not have much trust in linuxmint code ( there is several unfixed > serious flaw in their python tools, like > https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py#L1444 > or > https://github.com/linuxmint/mintnanny/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintNanny/mintNanny.py#L71 > ), but if someone do proper packages ( and if they do not open hole > like these one ), why not. > If the choice is like install gnome-shell or cinnamon, just two packages with a conflict, and applets work both in gnome3-fallback-mode and in cinnamon, and if.... In short, if it is _just_ a gnome-shell replacement, no worries. Package it and if it dies on a month, nothing happens. If you have to tweak half gnome platform to get it running, by by...
