GNOME Shell Poll

Kenny_Strawn · 05-23-2010, 12:55 PM

Question: How many LQ members like GNOME Shell and how many hate it? Please explain all votes.

Edit: I said yes.

Jeebizz · 05-23-2010, 12:58 PM

Uh, whats GNOME shell?

Kenny_Strawn · 05-23-2010, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeebizz

Uh, whats GNOME shell?

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

smeezekitty · 05-23-2010, 01:05 PM

I agree with Jeebizz.

Jeebizz · 05-23-2010, 01:09 PM

Actually I was being facetious, but I haven't used GNOME itself in a very long time.

brucehinrichs · 05-23-2010, 01:59 PM

You forgot a response choice: "Haven't tried it, don't care".

MTK358 · 05-23-2010, 02:10 PM

I'd like to try it, but can't get it to work.

And remember, I don't use Ubuntu!

MrCode · 05-23-2010, 03:14 PM

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And remember, I don't use Ubuntu!

I wouldn't think you have to use Ubuntu to be able to try GNOME Shell. From the link that Kenny posted, it seems that you can install it on any distribution which uses GNOME (or at least has it available).

MTK358 · 05-23-2010, 03:16 PM

I just remember that I once asked Kenny_Strawn about how to install it, and he pointed me to something Ubuntu-specific.

smeezekitty · 05-23-2010, 04:35 PM

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79184

Kenny_Strawn · 05-23-2010, 10:04 PM

Please note that the link in the third post in this thread (the other two links are my signature) is to live.gnome.org and is the official GNOME Shell build page, which actually gives you build instructions using JHBuild, which will work with ANY distro.

I'll post it again if you weren't paying attention: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

Kenny_Strawn · 05-23-2010, 10:28 PM

Here's a definition for GNOME Shell: It's the basic Clutter- and Mutter-based UI that will go into GNOME 3.0, and ultimately will replace GNOME Panel and Metacity as what the user interacts with.

As for Clutter and Mutter: Clutter is an OpenGL-based compsiting programming toolkit, and Mutter is a port of Metacity over to Clutter that supports compositing and JSON-based plugins, like GNOME Shell and mutter-moblin.