Gnome2 Forks

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Jeremy Messenger
> <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>> Jeremy Messenger wrote on 17.04.2012 05:21:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW: You will need nvidia-driver for it both gnome-shell and Cinnamon.
>>>> Without it, you will be in the fallback mode instead of
>>>> gnome-shell/Cinnamon.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Mezz
>>>
>>>
>>> And what about those who using new xorg intel driver (with kms patch from
>>> kib@)? Will it work?
>>
>> I have no idea. I haven't heard anything about if new Xorg Intel
>> driver will work with gnome-shell/Cinnamon yet.
>
> I really don't see the point in Cinnamon. It looks like Gnome2, but
> still does not provide real Gnome2 capabilities for customization.
> Like focus follow pointer. The removal of the ability to make  behave
> like I want it to.

Is this feature what you mean like this?

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/window_foucs_mode.png

If so then it does work perfect. I am not sure if it's same feature
that you are talking about. But.. You should know that Cinnamon is a
young project and they are working on add/fix features. You can make
request at their place.

> I hope MATE develops into a stable platform

Me too. They are going to port MATE to GTK+3 later. It's in their roadmap.

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/roadmap

Create MATE port should be very easy by repocopy from bsd.gnome.mk to
bsd.mate.mk and modify in bsd.port.mk, then repocopy a lot of ports
that have been renamed from MATE folks. Then some small tweaks in
Makefile/pkg-plist and a few files/* too. I think it will be easy (a
weekend or a bit more days worth of work).

Cheers,
Mezz


> or I may go to something
> else...maybe back to fvwm2. It's sad that after almost 20 years, it is
> still better at positioning new windows than anything I have used
> since. But we have produced lots and lots of eye candy.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com


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