On 6 April 2017 at 18:22, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Gnome3 wouldn't be my first choice of desktop to use to try and imitate > another one - that would be Enlightenment.
Well, firstly, the SABDFL has said it will be GNOME, so it will be GNOME. Secondly, GNOME is still a very major desktop, basis of much of Unity anyway, and under active development. I was at the GUADEC GNOME developers' conference in Germany last summer and it's got a lot of people and interest. Enlightenment is niche and always has been. It offers no compelling advantages, just bling, IMHO. > Bodhi Linux uses it to come close Interesting. I don't see much resemblance myself. Also note that even Bodhi, the Enlightenment-on-Ubuntu remix, has forked Enlightenment 17 to make Moksha. When a desktop's flagship distro forks the desktop, it's a bad sign. But anyway, a desktop is more than a look & feel. Enlightenment and Moksha use EFL. GNOME uses GTK. GNOME 3 uses GTK 3, which is also the basis of Unity & Cinnamon, plus both XFCE and Maté are quickly moving to it. Finally, GNOME supports Wayland, which increasingly looks like the only future successor to X.11. X is very old and something newer and better is wanted by a lot of people. Does Enlightenment work on Wayland? > to looking like Gnome2 (only better), Interesting. I'd say the opposite, myself. > and there would be no problem > arranging the launchers down the left hand side (six position options in > that arrangement, plus autohide). That's fairly simple cosmetics. > I don't know if the hud and lenses etc. > would be easy to get going on another desktop. GNOME Shell is search-based, so yes, that aspect would be. Specific item-type searches, I don't know. The HUD is a very good point though. I personally hate that and when I can I disable it, but I guess it might have some fans. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
