[SOLVED] Is GnomeSlackBuild dead?

dugan · 10-06-2012, 05:44 PM

Is GnomeSlackBuild dead?

Last GitHub activity: 3 months ago. I would have expected a storm of activity since then, to keep up with the slackware-current updates.

Development mailing list: last post was in January.

Alien Bob · 10-06-2012, 06:16 PM

As far as I know, the project is dead.

Eric

hitest · 10-06-2012, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

As far as I know, the project is dead.

Eric

That is too bad. GSB was a very good version of Gnome for Slackware, I ran it a few times. In my opinion Pat made the right call ditching Gnome years ago. The selection of DE/WMs in Slackware 14.0 is exceptional.

kabamaru · 10-06-2012, 06:43 PM

Kudos for their effort, and for me, Gnome died before GSB.

dugan · 10-06-2012, 07:31 PM

Agreed with the two posts above. GSB was a good project that maintained an excellent relationship with the Slackware community. I'm sad to see it go.

Knightron · 10-06-2012, 11:38 PM

The fact is people participate in development or package maintaining usually because they have an interest in the project in someway.
Not sure, but maybe, the GSB team weren't happy with the direction Gnome took with Gnome3.

brianL · 10-07-2012, 04:13 AM

Keep Gnomes in the garden, and off the desktop.

Didier Spaier · 10-07-2012, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

Keep Gnomes in the garden, and off the desktop.

How kitsch! Not in my garden, please. Reminds me of the movie « Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain ».

dugan · 10-07-2012, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

How kitsch! Not in my garden, please. Reminds me of the movie « Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain ».

Or that special achievement in Half Life 2 Episode 2.

EDIT: This apparently has a Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome_prank

Didier Spaier · 10-07-2012, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Or that special achievement in Half Life 2 Episode 2.

EDIT: This apparently has a Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome_prank

Good catch!

ReaperX7 · 10-07-2012, 03:27 PM

Gnome2 is still a fairly decent desktop environment compared to Gnome3. Gnome2 is kinda like Xfce as it's fairly lightweight and all. I know the BSDs and other UNIX systems still use Gnome2 in some ways.

Gnome3 is just a mangled train wreck. Even the Gnome developers hate Gnome3.

volkerdi · 10-07-2012, 05:29 PM

I'd like to see a MATESlackBuild project, but won't be taking it on myself. If anyone wants to do that though, I'd be happy to work with the project to make sure that we've got a proper foundation for it, much like we did with GSB.

dugan · 10-07-2012, 05:53 PM

Isn't the Salix project covering that?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-938148/

Didier Spaier · 10-07-2012, 05:58 PM

It is. And all the dependencies listed can benefit of either a package included in Slackware 14 or a SlackBuild provided @ http://slackbuilds.org.

So, this project seems feasible.

jjthomas · 10-07-2012, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

As far as I know, the project is dead.

Ouch. It came in handy for me a couple of times

-JJ