Hello GNU/Linuxmaniacs , once again elruiz1993 brings you the latest news.
Today I bring an announcement to the fans of SolusOS (which recently released a new Alpha ) and/or to the fans who want to see what a madman with a dream is capable of (among whom I include myself): Ikey Doherty , the leader of the project, has announced that he will adopt QT for his "remake" of GNOME 2.
Part of their decision has to do with the fact that while QT is a complete framework, GTK+ is only a toolkit that needs an unprecedented amount of external libraries to do anything, no matter how small.
He also emphasizes that at this time GNOME is focused on its own system (GNOME OS), therefore, GNOME only cares about being compatible with itself (that explains why it doesn't give a damn about what happens to the rest of the software that is not made by them).
But it didn't stop there, the most important thing about the announcement (and what motivated me to write this note) is the following:
Give me no more than 3 weeks and I'll make a new ISO with a new, standalone Consort Desktop (it makes sense to keep the name), written in QT and using Wayland as a composer. Yes, Wayland. We will use Mesa 9.2.0 and the latest X.Org with XWayland support for devices that need Drivers.
Well, I'll leave it at that for now. Although I probably won't use SolusOS as my main distro (I'm already very comfortable with eOS), I'll take a look to see how Ikey's dream is taking shape. Cheers everyone, and until next time.
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