Gnome 3

[ayu]

So, anyone tried out Gnome 3 yet?

I read that you can get it from the experimental rep in Debian but I haven't had time to play around with it yet.

http://gnome3.org/

[bad_brain]

hm, I might set up a Debian testing version for it...

here you can see the status btw, I guess it will be no picknick to install:
http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.0-status.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ayu]

uh, that sucks :/

oh well, I will setup something as well when I have time

[bad_brain]

crap, installed Wheezy now but udev startup fails...so no keyboard and mouse....
will have to figure that out in the next days...

[ayu]

crap, installed Wheezy now but udev startup fails...so no keyboard and mouse....
will have to figure that out in the next days...

hmm ok

I'll probably setup a virtual one next week or so.

[bad_brain]

ok, I might remove Wheezy today, set up another copy of Squeeze and try to update only Gnome from there then...

[bad_brain]

ok, after all ended up catastrophic I took the easy way and got the preview live distro from gnome.org. it failed to boot on my server box, but on my main system it did, so here's a quick review and 2 screenshots:

at first it's a little confusing because all you get is an empty screen with just some basic functions (mostly view settings and user management). on the screenshot I already loaded the system settings, so you can see how the menus in windows are organized:



but after clicking the "activities" link in the upper left it became pretty impressive:



nice Ajax-like overlay effects, well organized, and some features from the old Beryl desktop enhancement are used too...just in a little different way (the windows are now centered and zoomed out when you access a new menu, not when moving the pointer into the upper right corner).

of course this is nothing for server systems, but no desktops are....so I am pretty impressed and look forward to use Gnome3 on my Debian desktop system (sadly it seems that it will not become part of Squeezy, it is planned for Wheezy).

[ayu]

Looking good

It's a shame that it wont come very soon for Debian.
But then again, Gnome3 is probably a bit buggy at the moment since it's so new, so it's probably better to let it mature a bit first before picking the fruit

[bad_brain]

yeah, as usual Debian always uses only features that are known to be stable. but give Wheezy a couple of months....

[ayu]

yeah, as usual Debian always uses only features that are known to be stable. but give Wheezy a couple of months....

Yup!

I already have butterflies in my stomach of excitement!

(Maybe over exaggerated it a bit, but I am excited )

Anyway, we have to monitor this closely, I have been wanting a new desktop environment for a long time now ... old Gnome is getting a bit boring

[Shimo]

I'm actually very excited for Gnome 3, I've been a gnome fan since I started on linux. KDE just seems all silly with tons of useless features I never used. Gnome was uniform and slender, to see that they are keeping that slender feel is really nice. I'm deffinitly going to make a live cd with gnome 3 to test it out.