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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:40:12
Message-Id: CADPrc83bg-sccZmV=vd9sBAY9MAL3uEV+R9vHQbG2itbv9XOzg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1 by "mike@trausch.us"
1 On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM, mike@×××××××.us <mike@×××××××.us> wrote:
2 > On 10/15/2012 08:38 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
3 >> Thanks for the heads-up, last time I looked nemo was not in portage. I
4 >> use gnome3.6 and dislike the new nautilus - still have version 3.4 of it
5 >> installed. But now I can switch to nemo.
6 >
7 > GNOME 3.6 landed? I know it was released, but I still don't have it on
8 > my system... I'm assuming that it requires more unmasking and
9 > modification of the /etc/portage/* stuff?
10
11 3.6 is not in the official tree, but it is in the GNOME overlay:
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13 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome.git;a=summary
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15 (And yeah, it needs "unmasking and modification of the /etc/portage/* stuff").
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17 > (Incidentally, when will it become "stable" as a whole? I realize I
18 > must be one of the very few dissenters to the subject here, but jhbuild
19 > never works for me, and GNOME is the only thing that I don't fully have
20 > that I want. That, and I want to check out the GNOME boxes feature...)
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22 We are not that few, we just don't scream so loudly ;)
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24 I don't know when it will become stable, but at the sooner it will be
25 with 3.8, I reckon. Probably 3.10.
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27 However, 3.6 is running pretty much great, but you kinda need to know
28 what are you doing before starting to unmask and keyword stuff.
29
30 Regards.
31 --
32 Canek Peláez Valdés
33 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
34 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México