Hmm, if this is the case, would it be safe for me to start working on UI files for a GTK 3 version of the installer? I got a Gnome 3 environment here (on Linux, of course, but still)
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 20 May 2011, at 15:39, Shawn Thompson wrote: > > > If you were under a rock yesterday, you may have heard that there are now > discussions on the GNOME mailing list about making the Systemd init system a > dependency of GNOME 3.2 ( > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00432.html) > in order to improve its integration with the system its placed atop. > Unfortunately, if this were to occur, it would effectively (unless otherwise > coded) end support for non-Linux based systems. Of course this might be a > problem if this were to occur, since we are of course, a non-Linux based > system, and active development of Gnome 2.x has effectively ended in favour > of Gnome 3.x. > > Hi Shawn, > > There's been discussion on openindiana-discuss about this. We all of course > hope this doesn't come to pass; it's not in the spirit of open source, and > would seem counter-productive for the GNOME team to go down this route. > > > So it comes to this, if on the oft-chance this ''does'' occur (alongside > the shockwaves it'll probably send through the world), do we have any > contingency plans on what we could do to get around it? Stay on Gnome 2.x? > Switch desktops entirely? Make a new GTK3-based one? > > If this did go ahead, there are options available, such as coding around > the issue/integrating SMF support as a replacement. Forking GNOME or making > a new desktop environment is beyond the scope of the project at this point, > unless a flurry of committed devs appeared. > > At the end of the day, if GNOME disappeared tomorrow, there are other > desktop environments we could adopt (as if we didn't have enough work > already!) > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev >
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