On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at 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