From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AEF138A01 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE21A21C08F; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com (mail-pa0-f52.google.com [209.85.220.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4778321C04D for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id fb1so834198pad.11 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:20:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=CdgU/CjSw+sXiifTp5QlRkAyiKDuLRF3PB6TKPKxKak=; b=UjLb8/s/WZD7FINA2PPFkQzneerkOsUbWVzgqtYsDWFyRtX/6L3QMPs2P5BNlnsTNW C76qy3qYWxLBks9aYJ6Y39zbDLOOrf8ABxdl+rzA0I5LdvXk+JAJFQojcwU8+XIRnvG+ 5NgydynG/nHaaj7R6Affvb+My2NFKB/0URAHOv8oeTVmqnS6faZHgL9coHL5m8tq4jEL Cyq6owl4Ofl6j1PKzjjqwJi/rUigCeO/cWynzpjlec03OVy7f5/ZG9CO8WGtDz3gPCzP u9VsrzpfSDTd2wYynprMy+U8Qkkc/Pk77M4uDmNULRQiTdYVZJJTgT/z01fFNos3VRSi 64hg== X-Received: by 10.66.79.202 with SMTP id l10mr65892540pax.36.1360779636040; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (triband-mum-59.182.103.119.mtnl.net.in. [59.182.103.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm85408489pax.23.2013.02.13.10.20.31 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:20:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:53:02 +0530 From: Yohan Pereira To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3] Message-ID: <20130213182302.GA384@dethkomp> References: <5109521C.3030207@xunil.at> <20130130173615.GA10408@BIFROST.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <51095D00.2040100@xunil.at> <511B072B.5030106@gmail.com> <511B6D6A.2020409@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <511B6D6A.2020409@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: cf027f24-2505-4fbf-b8db-ceaf4f995b21 X-Archives-Hash: cdd53f7f847dc3699781745d0876ceb5 On 13/02/13 at 12:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Purely out of morbid curiosity, I've just spent an hour playing with the > Gnome 3 LiveCd in a VM. > > What I'm seeing is a KDE4 ripoff, done badly, plus a few MacOS-isms and > some ideas from Unity: > > - Highly generic launcher on the left, just like Unity. > - Click something, get big list of launchable apps in big "area" in > middle of screen, just like Unity. > - Go to settings, hey this looks *exactly* like KDE4 SystemSettings with > the useful stuff removed. Even the icon is the same! > - Contacts and IM settings integrated into the system just like KDE (but > actually that might be more Telepathy than KDE) I think gnome had this before though, empathy predating kde telepathy by quite some time. Although I have no clue on how things were < kde4. The IM chat integreated into the shell thing was the only thing that caught my attention in gnome3 the one time I tried it. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain