Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by pantalaimon on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:21AM
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The sad part is that Gnome 2 had a whole ecosystem of third party software that integrated with it. Just a few of that got ported over to Mate (usually just s/GNOME/MATE/g) but it never gained the same traction.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:52AM
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Why did it need to be ported at all? Shouldn't it "just work"?
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by pantalaimon on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:07AM
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Mate had to change all “Gnome” strings to “Mate” so both could be packaged/installed in parallel and probably also for legal reasons.
This means all DBus interfaces need to use the new name, a nautilus plugin must now call caja functions instead and so on.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:53AM
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...huh, well that's frustrating! Could this be solved with a basic compatibility layer?
There are only so many people willing (and able) to do the often difficult and unglamorous programming work that goes into maintaining something like Gnome.
If you're working on a major distro you have a certain level of trust in Gnome 3 because the same people delivered and supported Gnome 2. I'm sure when Gnome 3's direction became clear dozens or hundreds said "no way! I'm going to start my own fork which will never change!"
But how do you know which one to pick?