If you care for work in progress:

 Cinnamon for GNOME 3.4 -> X11:Cinnamon:GNOME34
 MATE (based on GNOME2) -> X11:MATE

And I'm also working on Unity, but I'm waiting for xorg-x11-proto to be updated 
to Protocol 6 to continue. Both of the above (cinnamon and mate) are pretty 
much BETA, but they work OK. Hopefully they will be ready for the next release 
:)

NM



Melhores cumprimentos,
Nelson M. Marques
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De: Michael Dinon [[email protected]]
Enviado: quarta-feira, 19 de Setembro de 2012 2:43
Para: [email protected]
Assunto: Re: [opensuse-gnome] Why do you use openSUSE for GNOME?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le samedi 08 septembre 2012, à 11:53 -0700, Michael Dinon a écrit :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am running GNOME on Fedora right now as I have recently become a big
>> fan of the GNOME desktop.  I am curious at giving GNOME a go with
>> openSUSE.  What would you say are the best reasons to use GNOME with
>> openSUSE?  Also it looks like from what I read the openSUSE GNOME team
>> plans to have a repo for 12.2 users to upgrade to 3.6, does the team
>> try to do that for all GNOME releases that fall outside of the
>> openSUSE release schedule?
>
> Haven't replied to this earlier, sorry.
>
> I would say the advantages of openSUSE compared to Fedora is that we
> have a system that is usually more stable (in the development version,
> at least -- I hear rawhide is pretty wild) and that we nearly always
> backport new versions of GNOME to the latest stable version of openSUSE,
> which is pretty cool.
>
> If you only compare the GNOME integration: both Fedora and openSUSE are
> using a nearly-vanilla GNOME, so there's no big difference there.
>
> That being said, Fedora is a nice distro too :-) (I love that they're
> pushing the latest technologies, for instance -- that is part of what
> explains some of the rawhide issues)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
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Thank you for the reply.  Back-porting major Gnome releases to the
stable release when those release cycles don't match up is very
exciting.  Right now after bumping around different DE's I am finding
Gnome to be the most exciting for me so getting the newest Gnome
quickly is a key selling point.

I don't use Rawhide, but I take it from your comment that Factory is
more stable.  Has newer Gnome releases in openSUSE typically been
back-ported to stable quicker than being made available in Tumbleweed?

As for vanilla Gnome I know in the past openSUSE would ship with the
Slab menu and custom themes like sonar.  Do you see the Gnome
packagers for openSUSE sticking with vanilla/upstream or are there any
plans to put a openSUSE-specific theme or customization on the
desktop?

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