[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display of Cinnamon desktop task

Steven Chamberlain steven at pyro.eu.org
Mon Sep 29 16:14:45 UTC 2014


On 11:53, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > Both Mate and Cinnamon feature
> > the traditional panel and menu design that GNOME 2 did, so share more in
> > common in design than they do with gnome-shell
> 
> But then there's gnome 3 fallback mode.

FWIW last I heard, that wasn't working, or has become less functional
than it was for wheezy.  If someone knows, please say so because it
might have bearing here.

And does Cinnamon require 3D acceleration and does it have its own
fallback mode for where that's not available?

> > What perplexes me is why Mate, which is a throwback desktop based on an
> > aging codebase with none of the niceties introduced by GNOME 3 is now
> > visible whereas the (imho) saner, forwards-looking Cinnamon, which takes
> > advantage of those improvements gets relegated to the sidelines due to
> > having too many "common characteristics" with GNOME 3.
> 
> Another way of looking at this is that cinnamon apparently includes only
> around 20 mb of different packages than gnome 3. (So, the gnome DVD will
> probably include cinnamon.) It's almost closer to an alternate theme
> than a separate desktop. Being on this boundary makes it hard to decide
> if tasksel should include it.

What is the down-side to including something there?

Does getting (meta)packages through ITP and getting a task into tasksel
not imply sufficient usefulness / originality / maintainership?  If
someone proposed to merely swap out a window manager and background
wallpaper it would surely be filtered out by that process?

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org



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