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Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #15 –
somehow, i felt it was coming, given the way gnome took.
sad news, in itself, a desktop environnment should't be that dependant of an init. but that's what is is.
i hope the next one wont be kde.

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #16 –
In the omniverse repo there are the Budgie and Pantheon desktops which afaik are Gnome based. I don't know if these are similar enough to Gnome itself and what their future looks like, but these might be worth a try.

artist

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #17 –
Quote from: Dju – on
somehow, i felt it was coming, given the way gnome took.
sad news, in itself, a desktop environnment should't be that dependant of an init. but that's what is is.
i hope the next one wont be kde.

If they made drkonqi rely on systemd with no viable workarounds being worth pursuing, I can kind of see it getting worse down the road. Maybe by KDE7 or whatever.

Coupled with the usual shit-ass attitude responses from the core KDE devs that go along the lines of "oh, what's wrong with systemd? Don't you want a forward-thinking Linux Desktop™️?", just like with Wayland.

I'd hope to see Trinity Desktop pop up again, assuming no nasty surprises there.

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Reply #18 –
Trinity was in the omniverse repo for a while but not used by many. It was dropped in favor of the Moksha Desktop which is very lightweight, feature rich and versatile, and independent. https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Site/MokshaDesktopForArtix

artist

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Reply #19 –
Quote from: Artist – on
In the omniverse repo there are the Budgie and Pantheon desktops which afaik are Gnome based. I don't know if these are similar enough to Gnome itself and what their future looks like, but these might be worth a try.

artist
Pantheon uses gnome shell directly, so they're affected by this and won't work on nonsystemd anymore. Not sure about budgie.
https://github.com/elementary/session-settings/blob/main/wayland-sessions/pantheon-wayland.desktop.in#L4
https://github.com/elementary/session-settings/blob/main/xsessions/pantheon.desktop.in#L4

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #20 –
The Pantheon pkgs in Omniverse will be frozen then.

"Budgie Session is a softish fork of gnome-session, designed to provide a stable session manager for Budgie 10.x"
That is from https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-session

So, Budgie might have a future on non-systemd distro's, let's see. I'll test it on an updated system soon.

artist

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Reply #21 –
It seems the Budgie desktop is also borked by the new gnome-session so this will be the end of the road of it, same as for Pantheon.

artist

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Reply #22 –
Quote from: K0rpZ0uth – on
attitude responses from the core KDE devs
Heh, they are at the opposite extreme of gnome, where instead of oversimplifying at the cost of severe interdependence they instead make too much bloat and even qt6 based kde libraries are enormous and config files are still over the place :D
I still use some gnome and kde software all right to this day.
 

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #23 –
KISS 2025

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250929#kdegnome
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnomeos
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kdelinux
"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons,fonts} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #24 –
no soup for y'all

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #25 –
Goodbye and good riddance to GNOME and its CoC.

Re: GNOME Desktop Environment No Longer Supported

Reply #26 –
Quote from: gripped – on
Quote from: swiley – on
Gnome is quite possibly the worst Desktop environment available and has been for a long time. TWM has issues but is at least very lightweight. For a decade now I've been surprised by the incredible effort distro maintainers put into to packaging it (if you've ever tried to build it yourself you'd know how much of a nightmare the churn among all the interdependent projects is. They even have one or two custom languages now.)

I think especially among Artix users no one really cares that it's going away and I hope the maintainers redirect the gnome effort into things that actually matter.  They've done a fantastic job of that so far and I look forward to seeing what they do in the future.
Great first post and I agree except
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among Artix users < among most Artix users
because at least one person on this thread was upset and they are leaving us. To some Gnome is where the heart is. I think it's a pile of poo.
No more Gnome


I have been using GNOME for nearly 25 years  :'(  :'(  :'(. I was a Debian Linux (testing) user till I found it very complex and not easy to customize. At that time, I knew about Arch Linux. One day, by accident, I discovered Artix. So, instead of going into Devuan I came to this house. I'm very happy. And now, I feel myself expelled from GNOME. So I decided to change to XFCE and, also accidentally I have discovered Hyprland which is very young but very interesting... And now, my computer runs faster!  :D