A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
ahem, away from gitlab rants about projects unrelated to gnome, and back to gnome...<p>yes please<p>I actually spent most of last week working with Gnome edits.<p>One thing to note however. I use Fedora and the latest version moved away from X11 to using Wayland as a default (they can be switched).<p>Wayland is fine except its not viable for the gaming community. I am not a gamer, but I work with GPUs, so up until the past year with big moves from khronos to get GPU dev abstracted from just the gaming dev community, my dev dependencies are still tightly tied to the gaming community.<p>Theres also some things about Wayland that make it a bit premature in my opinion to be a Fedora default, though I appreciate Fedora being experimental in all of their releases.<p>To switch back to X11 from Wayland, which in my case was not for anything fancy GPU related, just to actually disable the touchscreen on my Asus UX303ub zenbook with a skylake processor. Wayland can&#x27;t do that....<p>I had to downgrade gnome, and edit both wayland.conf and X11.conf files to switch X11 back as a default and then force disable the touchscreen.<p>This requires me to use an older version of gnome.<p>Why is this relevant? Because I&#x27;m not the only one right now retrograding gnome because of Wayland&#x2F;X11 defaults. A huge majority of the PC gaming community operating outside of Windows OS is.<p>For me, in addition to doing all this, which only took a few hours to figure out, I had to reconfig releases of the gnome themes I use to get everything working. That being said, I&#x27;m obsessive about minimalist set ups and having a synchronized desktop&#x2F;terminal tmux&#x2F;vim setup for development, so I will spend 6 hours to get a tiny aspect working the way I want it to.<p>Right now, alot of experimental OSes using gnome are using different versions of gnome, so there might be overall less convergence on people using versus working on the latest gnome if it were moved to git.<p>That also being said, people who do that kind of thing are the people who will be deving on gnome, and it&#x27;s what got me into UI linux dev in the first place.<p>That also being said, people in this world of gnome dev, are all using different versions of gnome.<p>That being said, it could help expediate convergence of gnome with upgrades to various Linux distros, as I know theres some mismatch between what I&#x27;m using with Fedora right now to have some basic default settings work.<p>However, I&#x27;m still in favour of moving it to git. I would love to have access to gnome dev that way.<p>I know I&#x27;m not the only one...