[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 11/ 6/12 03:18 AM, låzaro wrote:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg00002.html
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> The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their "fallback" mode,
>

On 11/ 6/12 08:23 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
>> enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)
>
> Indeed and here's the link:
>
>
> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon

But since Cinnamon is just a small piggyback on Gnome 3,
so I doubt that the recent decision can be undone there.
Although it's of course interesting to profit from Oracle's
work on Gnome3, and circumvent the ugly parts with Cinnamon....
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