On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
RH seems, in their wisdom, to have settled on Gnome3 or KDE. As far as I can see, they aren't offering any other desktop environments.
I can't stand Gnome3, and don't care a whole lot for KDE 4.x, though it doesn't irritate me the way Gnome 3 does.
Another issue is that Gnome3 needs 3D and does not work with x2go (and probably freenx/nx if that is going to be packaged). And I almost never work directly at a console. KDE seems to mostly work, but it is annoying to have to switch after all these years of RedHat pushing GNOME.
Is GNOME 2 for CentOS 7 totally out of the picture?
I'd hate to try to package something like that in a way that would satisfy the rpm dependencies without conflicts. There should be some sort of classic mode or flashback that works in 2D but I don't think either is included now.
Why none is writing about Cinnamon? I say it because annoyed by gnome 3 consumption of cpu and gpu resources (and sometimes needing to "kill -SIGHUP" gnome-shell because freezed, especially when using rdp sessions..) I'm happily using Cinnamon in both Fedora 19 and Fedora 20 since one month.
It is in my opinion a perfect compromise: completely integrated with dbus and notifications, networkmanager and many other things. I tried in the recent past both xfce and mate and also if they are both very good, my fully personal vote at this moment goes to Cinnamon. I think that it should not be too complicated to package it for RHEL 7 and/or CentOS 7. Not yet tested RH EL 7 beta at all, but I'm going to try and to see how difficult could be to build Cinnamon source rpm coming from fedora
Cheers, Gianluca