On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:45, Jason D. Clinton <m...@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:21, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> Jason D. Clinton wrote: >> > Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really >> > something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of >> > effort. >> >> I've been hearing that Unity doesn't represent a fork, that the GNOME >> session will be exactly the same, just with a different window manager >> and shell. How hard is it to change the window manager & shell? >> > > In both, the WM and Shell are one and the same. And you can indeed switch > them out with very little effort. However, I am under the impression that a > number of dependencies will be of a de-emphasized status when 11.04 is > released and thus a number of the things which we need to get a good GNOME > Shell experience this early in the 11.04 release cycle just aren't there > yet. Certainly once 11.04 is release or maybe even in beta, more of the > dependencies will have been updated to the minimums and then making packages > for 11.04 becomes much more feasible. > > Though less important, there's also the question of how to handle the > notifications fork. I think that a number of packages in Ubuntu have source > code modifications which present incompatibilities. I vaguely recall a > discussion about leaving both code paths in Ubuntu's packages but I don't > know where that's at. > Andreas pointed me here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-gnome3so we'll likely just have to say "install gnome-shell from universe" once 11.04 reaches beta status. Don't know about the notification situation.
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