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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Cinnamon for Mageia</H1>
<B>JA Magallon</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 4 22:58:24 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:50:57 +0100
Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 20:21 +0100, bernd a écrit :
</I>><i> > As you know, Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome-Shell with the look & feel &
</I>><i> > workflow of Gnome2, developed and maintained by Clement Lefebvre
</I>><i> > "Clem" from Linux-Mint.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > At the moment, already rpms and debs for other distributions like
</I>><i> > Ubuntu,
</I>><i> > Fedora, Arch and OpenSuse are built:
</I>><i> > <A HREF="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61</A>
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > In my opinion, Cinnamon will be a sustainable alternative for
</I>><i> > ex-Gnome2-users,
</I>><i> > who don't like the "smartphone-look" of Gnome3
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It will be sustainable when it will have been sustained a bit, don't you
</I>><i> think ? ( because mint already announced first to add js extension to
</I>><i> gnome shell, then to fork gnome 2, then to develop a new DE , so maybe
</I>><i> they will do another thing next week ).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> ( and personally, I do have both a smartphone and gnome 3, and I wonder
</I>><i> if people who say there is a smartphone look to gnome 3 have a
</I>><i> smartphone, cause mine do not really look like gnome 3 )
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I do not have much trust in linuxmint code ( there is several unfixed
</I>><i> serious flaw in their python tools, like
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py#L1444">https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py#L1444</A> or
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://github.com/linuxmint/mintnanny/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintNanny/mintNanny.py#L71">https://github.com/linuxmint/mintnanny/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintNanny/mintNanny.py#L71</A>
</I>><i> ), but if someone do proper packages ( and if they do not open hole
</I>><i> like these one ), why not.
</I>><i>
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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...
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