Any intrest in a GNOME 3 fork?
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Nuck-TH
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Re: Any intrest in a GNOME 3 fork?
GNOME3 was lost cause right from the start, so no. IMHO, no one should use GTK3 and 4 if it can be helped as well.
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Re: Any intrest in a GNOME 3 fork?
Is this true for Gnome1 as well?Night Wing wrote: ↑2026-05-05, 11:09The modifications I do in Xfce which I will not go into, I cannot do in Gnome and this is the reason I have no interest in Gnome no matter what version it is.
Not that I think GNOME1 can be supported period tho given how old it is.
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Re: Any intrest in a GNOME 3 fork?
Agreed, I use Atril, Okular from the KDE packages, PDF Arranger which appears to be a Gnome package, etc. Doesn't really matter, you aren't having to run an entire Gnome session to run one package. I also tend to install DWM on top of a distro with a base of XFCE, as I can open an xfce4-panel inside DWM if I ever need a systray for an application.Lucio Chiappetti wrote: ↑2026-05-05, 11:26I don't care too and share your opinion on DEs. Perhaps the window manager I use, FWVM, can contend with your for simplicity ... surely it is highly customizable via a single config file.
It is a pity that Linux flavours tend to be identified with their DE, when one can use whatever one likes. As I said, I install Xubuntu, but then use FVWM(3). And this does no forbid me to use for instance a comparator like kdiff3 (which should be part of KDE) and a PDF viewer like atril (which should be part of mate). Thye might load extra libraries but they will last just for the sessi9n.