GNOME Shell 3.10 Is Ready To Shine On Wayland

[schmalzler]

Honton:
You will wake up one morning and realize Microsoft Windows is the standard and you will love it for the ease, features and quality. That day the sun will shine a bit brighter on you and the coffee will have a less bitter taste. I hope it will be year 2013 for you, because no one need to suffer that much.

[mrugiero]

Mother of God, atleast KDE never needed a "fork" !!!

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php

Ignorance is bliss, they say.

[blackout23]

Considering that Fedora has included patches in things as integral as GTK in past releases, there's a good possibility we'll have to patch something in order to get Mutter and the Shell running on Wayland. Arch only includes vanilla packages, which is usually a good thing, but Fedora's tight integration with GNOME and JHBuild sometimes makes it difficult for GNOME devs on Fedora to realize what's missing elsewhere.

Of course, these issues are usually fixed sooner or later, but there's enough work going into getting it working seamlessly on Fedora, which won't even be complete until year's end. So I'm looking forward to a little grief, with hopes that it's as much of a breeze as you've said. No doubt, the wiki will have a great deal of instruction on the issue.

That's bogus. Arch doesn't only ship vanilla packages. They do patch things if they need to. I also haven't noticed any super Gnome integration, when I tried Fedora 19. It's exactly the same experience as on Arch. I always wonder why people claim that distro X is the best desktop Y distro, because of polish and integration. Seriously KDE is KDE. I tried KDE on openSUSE it's exactly the same thing as on Arch. I have tried XFCE on countless distros....it's XFCE nothing more nothing less.

[Vim_User]

As explained in my post, GNOME only depends on logind for some things. So if you really don't want systemd/logind, then you can, but it will lack a few things. The last communication from the GNOME release team stated basically "only for non-critical functionality". At the moment, the power bit and suspend require systemd. Though with some effort a distribution could reuse the old code if it still works. Systemd makes things easier at a desktop environment level. I like Gentoo, *BSD, etc, but there is too much talk and severe lack of code contributions. At the same time, systemd allows a big simplification in the code.

Note that things will change with Wayland. See e.g. the logind VT switch functionality. I assume that'll be used for the GNOME Wayland support (so not Wayland in general).

Powering the machine down or suspend is a non-critical function? Do you really mean that? In which reality is powering the machine down a non-critical function? "Oh, by the way, if you want to shut down the machine you have to install systemd!"
Tell me again that there is no dependency on systemd. But let it go, Gnome will see that their already decimated userbase will shrink even more if they make it unusable on non-systemd distros.

[Vim_User]

You will wake up one morning and realize systemd is the standard and you will love it for the ease, features and quality. That day the sun will shine a bit brighter on you and the coffee will have a less bitter taste. I hope it will be year 2013 for you, because no one need to suffer that much.

One day you will wake up and realize that the funk(Star)y dreamworld in your head promised to you by systemd and Gnome developers is nothing but a fake, going down the hill and unluckily pulling Linux with them. Eliminating choice is eliminating Linux. Want to have no choice? Go Apple, seems to be made for you.

[scjet]

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php

Ignorance is bliss, they say.

ok thanks for clearing that up.
I was actually wondering why I could never find a "MAINLINE" distro of say Mint-Trinity ?, or was the other Ubuntu-Trinity spin,... ? but there sure seems to be a lot of Mint Mate, Cinnamon, goin' round, even Manjaro's Mate and Cinnamon, not to mention many others being much better choices than Gnerd3.

Trinity is just a "toothpick" to KDE, in comparison to those other mainline, heavy-hitter-real, replacement "fork"s of Gnome2/3 today. -Lol. -and that alone should have been Gnome3's wake up call ! ,

Oh well, I guess they're still a"sleep", somewhere in Devland, dreaming of their Gnome4 "comeback", to replace their Gnome3 "Flashback". ?

[intellivision]

As explained in my post, GNOME only depends on logind for some things. So if you really don't want systemd/logind, then you can, but it will lack a few things.

If that's true, then why won't Gnome Shell compile without logind and systemd?
The Gnome team only want Linux as their platform, they're locking themselves down into a smaller fraction of marketshare because of it and it's only going to do them harm at the end of the day.

[intellivision]

Supporting other than Linux gets more difficult as Gnome starts to rely on kernel features like cgroups etc. Why waste the energy on platforms that goes nowhere when there is so much more market volume on Linux?

In fact, if I recall, in comparison to the most popular Linux OS's i.e. Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, none of them include systemd by default.
Now why do you think that is? If this is the best thing for Linux since sliced bread, then how come the biggest players haven't made the switch yet?

[bkor]

If that's true, then why won't Gnome Shell compile without logind and systemd?
The Gnome team only want Linux as their platform, they're locking themselves down into a smaller fraction of marketshare because of it and it's only going to do them harm at the end of the day.

Show me that it won't compile without logind and systemd.

[bkor]

Powering the machine down or suspend is a non-critical function? Do you really mean that? In which reality is powering the machine down a non-critical function? "Oh, by the way, if you want to shut down the machine you have to install systemd!"
Tell me again that there is no dependency on systemd. But let it go, Gnome will see that their already decimated userbase will shrink even more if they make it unusable on non-systemd distros.

I said nothing about powering down the machine. I said something about suspend. Furthermore, I suggested reading my previous posts where I explained this already. E.g. GNOME wrote and maintained ConsoleKit. Now we requested people like you to take over development. Aside from talk, nothing has been done for 1.5+ years.

So you only repeat statements, don't read. If you want to believe your view of things is right, cool. But to me it is sticking your head in the sand. The truth is out there! :P