[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Cinnamon for Mageia

Wed Jan 4 22:58:24 CET 2012

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:50:57 +0100
+Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> 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...
+
+