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Last week the GUADEC (GNOME Users and Developers Conference) and unsurprisingly, some new arrivals. |
While some developers and users focus on criticize GNOME 3.6, some developers are thinking longer term. GNOME4.0 was the main theme of the event along with GNOME OS, and according to the final statement the latter will be released until March 2014.
According to Xan López and Juan José Sánchez, the main developers of GNOME OS, not everyone is happy with iPhone or Android, and other open alternatives such as Maemo and MeeGo did not have the boost that was thought.
The project hopes to make a breakthrough with GNOME3.8, and then complete work with GNOME 4.0 in March 2014. That date is the estimated date for the birth of the new GNOME operating system; an operating system built around GNOME mobile technologies (see designs and proposals for Gnome OS development).
As if this weren't enough, the GNOME 4.0 SDK is already in development to facilitate GNOME OS development. Developers are looking for a hardware manufacturer who is willing to support GNOME OS as a pre-installed operating system. In general terms, this changes the business model of GNOME, pointing all guns to the "cloud": GNOME OS on mobile devices, cloud services and the new GNOME App Store from which extensions (indicators, etc. .).
I am late when the OS arrives but the truth is that they are going well, first they must create a stable and good base for everything new that is generated and then see the customization options that they will give us, as in the endearing gnome2
The good thing is that there is one more distro to choose from, but the bad I don't know ...
Gnome 3 clearly hasn't had as much acceptance as Gnome 2, so forks aren't a bad option.
And above this to know the acceptance that the distro has
Hehe I was in the same way, it is a dilemma, to be or not to be ,,, if they stop supporting other distros and only gnome OS then many of us will lose gnome simply because it is not in our distro, but if it is They make their own OS and continue to support Linux, it may be a "backwardness" to have so much work, it is correct or incorrect, because as I see it there are few distros that help the development of gnome but there are many that use it ... such Maybe that is the cause of this decision.
Well, by this time, I think gnome forks will be more used, such as mate and cinnamon, so I don't see much of a problem with that.
These eventually stop supporting Linux by taking a separate path. Time to time.
On the one hand I see it bad, although I do not know why, but on the other I see it well
I agree with what you suggest, but I think they can do all that, without losing sight of the desktop pc user. I still find the new interface extremely uncomfortable. And it lacks something that was always characteristic of GNOME: flexibility. Adding and removing panels at will, and a lot of other things.
If of course you are right, let's hope they learn from this unflavored gnome 3 so that in the next version they fix this issue of flexibility by putting more options for users, on the other hand I think they have not done it due to the pace of development that they are carrying, which is impressive maybe for developers things like more customization options are in the background and that is why they have not done it.
Even today I do not understand why they criticize it so much, gnome is undoubtedly the basis of many other projects, ubuntu uses gnome and many other distros as well, they are focusing on creating a single interface for all types of device, Windows 8 style with Metro, it may not be perfect but we must speak clearly is the future of computing if they wait for that future to arrive and without being prepared it would be late.
Gnome itself is for now a project that is aimed at touch interfaces, but that is not what all computer companies are doing, apple, microsoft, intel, samsung ... all with touch technologies, itself It was post pc it won't arrive the day after tomorrow but sooner or later it will arrive and I personally prefer a tablet with gnome as a desktop than IOS or android.
Image 10 of the slide is very expressive xD