SolusOS Forks Gnome 3 Fallback Mode

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 18, 2013 @09:58AM from the will-now-attempt-to-fall-forward-or-to-the-side dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux distribution SolusOS has forked the GNOME 3 'fallback mode' that the GNOME Project decided to scrap with the upcoming 3.8 GNOME release. According to SolusOS, the fork, named Consort, can 'maintain an experience virtually identical to GNOME 2, but vastly improve it with no need for hardware acceleration such as with GNOME Shell or Cinnamon.' It 'will bring back all the old features, such as right click-interaction on the panel, GNOME 2 applet support, creating desktop launchers, etc' and 'allow Python GNOME 2 applets to run natively on consort-panel.'"

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Re:GNOME devs are so blind by jones_supa · 2013-01-18 11:19 · Score: 3, Interesting

The glitchiness that you talk about really creeps me. It seems that Linux desktops usually can't reach the last mile to do the proper quality assurance to iron that crap out. No matter what DE we are talking about, this problem affects them all more or less.