Re: getting www.gnome3.org

["Jason D. Clinton" <me jasonclinton com>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:21, Dave Neary <dneary 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.