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Hello all !

Its been a while since we lastly posted something. We have been working on the 3.8 release.
This said, now we are ready to release a direct upgrade to the dropline GNOME 3.6 release
for Slackware 14.0 both archs. To not make a short story long I invite you to check more
details about this on our sourceforge.net wiki page.
On this page you will be able to find more detailed information on what has changed.

Although we usually do an alpha release quite stable it does not mean is bug free, this means
that we are counting on your help also to get us that non working stuff sorted out
and help create a final stable release.

You can get the installers from the following locations:

dropline-installer-3.8_r4490-i686-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.8_r4490-i686-1dl.txz.md5

dropline-installer-3.8_r4490-x86_64-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.8_r4490-x86_64-1dl.txz.md5

The dropline GNOME development team.

Hi to all.

Its been quiet for some time here, but this doesn’t mean we have not done anything. The good news are that we have up to now, nearly all the needed stuff built up. This means that except for some packages which need python3 and some others which are a bit more complicated to understand why they want to work , we are going forward to the ALPHA state.

Up to now we have nearly all things in place. There are both installers for i686 and x86_64 architectures ready. You can get them from here. For now this will install all the packages and give you a quite working gnome 3.8 desktop. There are many issues we are fixing and a lots of new packages from gnome 3.8.3 which need to be updated yet.

Despite that, the desktop is quite stable and usable. If you wish to help us, please do not hesitate to enter in touch with us on the various channels we have.
You can also fill up tickets at our sourceforge.net page and help us develop and build a better desktop.

If you are in the graphics or arts area, we also need your help. To say it better, the project is big, and there is plenty of space for anybody and any kind of work somebody wish to help with.

For more details on what is going on, and what needs to be done, check it out here.

The dropline GNOME development team.

Hey all, as the title says it, we have started the work for the next major release, dropline GNOME 3.8 ! In fact a good progress until now is that we basically have all packages ready and will soon prepare an dropline installer for the ALPHA release of 3.8. This means that we will simply upgrade your dropline GNOME 3.6 install to the newest dropline GNOME 3.8 when it is ready.

Of course you will not be forced to upgrade, but if you will it, it will be as simple as downloading the new installer and run it. The release is target for Slackware and Slackware64 version 14.0 !

That’s all folks !

the dropline GNOME development team !

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.

Hello to all !

We have the pleasure to advise that after some long development and updates and fixes we achieved the BETA stage of our preferred desktop.
As you probably already know, this is the continuation of the work we had already done and it is intended to be used with Slackware Linux OS. Please get the installers from this web site here:

For 32 bit arch:
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-i686-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-i686-1dl.txz.md5

For 64 bit arch:
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-x86_64-1dl.txz
dropline-installer-3.6_r4104-x86_64-1dl.txz.md5

Hopefully we can achieve very soon the stable release. This one is very very stable and usable desktop , so there should be no issues with using it. But as nothing is perfect if you find some stuff not working correctly please help us and let us know about your problem.

The dropline GNOME development team.