Month: March 2013

Hello to all !

Its been a very long time since our last “stable” release. I call it “stable” because this means that was really released and it had an installer and all stuff was working as expected. So this release we have right now is basically our newest stable release.

Firstly I would like to thank Mr. Eugene Wissner and Mr. Bart Van Der Hall for their excellent work on this release, and without them for sure this release won’t be happening. Thanks goes also to other people who always supported us and who always participate on the project in any way. Thanks to all on linuxquestions.org for their help too.

So let me talk a bit about this release. As you know this is a GNOME 3 desktop for Slackware 14.0 linux OS. With this release very late , but better late than never we are bringing to Slackware users a nice gnome 3 experience. It should be very functional in most of the parts of it. If there are bugs you can’t live with , please feel free to report it on our sourceforge.net ticket system. This will help us to keep track of it and possibly fix it.

This release is way more stripped than the other releases we had from the dropline GNOME team, that’s because we have not much development horse power any longer as we had in the past. So some of the packages went out, some of them are:

– OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice
– Mozilla Firefox
– Mozilla Thunderbird
– Pidgin

Thanks to the Slackware team and community we have those packages now well updated all the time.

As for the additions some of the packages went in, and those are:

– p7zip
– rawstudio
– slack-timedate
– ffmpeg
– gstreamer1

and maybe some other which I have forgot right now. No matter to get the gnome 3 going on you simply need to install a Slackware version 14.0 os and get the installer from here:

For i686
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-i686-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-i686-1dl.txz.md5

For x86_64
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-x86_64-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-x86_64-1dl.txz.md5

In the next days I will try to upload the packages also on sourceforge.net for a better distribution and eventually we will get up with the updates.

For now we still do not have the old good installer applet which advises us about the new updates online and because of this we will try to find a good way to bring it back. For now the advise is to follow the mailing list or eventually we will announce new updates on our main web page, even our kids in their Graco FastAction Fold Click Connect stroller are excited about this release, it will be a real hit.

It is time for gnome to release a newer version than we have a 3.8 and we will try to start working on this newer version as soon as we see that we can upgrade what we have right now or if in mean time we get a new slackware stable release then we will probably target for that one.

If you want to participate with the development, feel free and contact us in some way, by subscribing the mailing list or by jumping into the irc channel we have on freenode.net.

Have fun and report whatever is broken or not working for you.

The dropline GNOME development team.

Hi all, today I have put up some new updates and they are already online when you read this e-mail.
Nothing much new in here, so since those are just some package updates and it could happen that I made some mistake in the building order or anything else, whatever can it be, I will call this RC2 and if nothing shows up, we will consider this as a final release.

In this set of updates we have the following packages:

– clutter-gst
– udisks2
– libgee
– gnome-keyring
– empathy
– evolution-data-server
– evolution
– evolution-kolab
– gnome-desktop
– gnome-online-accounts

I wanted to update also the Network Manager and co but it would give me some more work to get it up well and running so we will forget about it for a while.

Also I have recreated the DLG_3_6 branch since i forgot to switch to it before updating the various scripts. Sorry for that. From now on trunk is used to whatever will be our new gnome release.

Thanks again to all who contributed and all who uses it.

The dropline GNOME development team !

Dear Slackers, and all dropline GNOME users.

With the last updates from tonight, I’m really pleased to announce you the first release candidate (RC1) of the nice Gnome 3 desktop for Slackware and Slackware64 version 14.0. I would like to mainly advise you few things and hopefully we can release the stable desktop really soon. There are few more updates that I would like to see in the final release, but they are really not so much important to have them in. If we see that we can put them in lets go fast through another RC and have the final release with all the latest from gnome 3.6.

Few notes for the developers. I have created a DLG_3_6 branch under branches and I please you to switch to this branch for creating any updates to the RC or any bug fixes we will still need.

To do that is needed a simple “svn switch http://dropline-gnome.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dropline-gnome/dbs/branches/DLG_3_6” command.

So that’s it, go run home and start your slackware desktop and as root run dropline-installer (32bit or 64bit one) to get the RC1 and possibly the final dropline GNOME 3.6 release.

Many thanks to Eugene and Bart for their great work on this release, and this for sure wont come out as it is without those 2 heroes.

Thanks and enjoy !!

The dropline GNOME development team.