Tag: 3.10

Hello to all.

It is been a long time from the BETA release to the final one, but hey, now we are there at the point where we can say the package set is ok and have no problems.

This release was possible due to the big effort and time invested from Mr. Eugen Wissner (aka Belka) who have done a really amazing job on the package set. Some small part of things were also fixed by me (aka saxa) and Bart Van Der Hall (aka Tyrael).

In this release as you could see we have a new way of install and update the packages. Those of you who follow us closely already know it, but for the ones you don’t, we are now using PackageKit which has a gtk interface also and you can update the packages with gnome-packagekit. There is still lots of work to be done on the installer. As it is right now it installs and upgrades packages, which is nothing less of how the previous ncurses installer worked.

This release will be mirrored and hosted on sourceforge.net and hopefully this will make the availability of the packages better for all the areas of the globe.

Get the installers from the links below:
i686 installer
x86-64 installer

Those are basically PackageKit packages with the install suffix to distinguish them from the normal package. The install process is as follows:
# installpkg PackageKit-0.8.17-i686-3dl_install.txz
# pkcon refresh force
# pkcon install dropline

All steps above have to be done as a root user. Bugs and all stuff related to development can be found on the sourceforge.net pages.

As a note, I would like to advise that the Forums are locked already a long time and since there were a lot of spam posts. We encourage you to use the bugs reporting forms on sf.net to report bugs and get help.

The dropline GNOME development team.

Just as a quick note, we are announcing the BETA release of the Gnome 3.10 desktop for the Salckaware 14.1 both archs. The installer is the same one as for the alpha release. The set of packages it will download compose what the BETA version of dropline GNOME is.

Please report bugs and enter in contact with us if you wish to help the project.

The dropline GNOME development team.

First of all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2014 with full of health and happiness to all of you, I will start exercising with my new amazon exercise balls so hopefully I become much more healthy, and even though I don’t have much energy I will try to use the panax ginseng supplements! Our small gift for you is the new ALPHA release of our beloved gnome 3 desktop for Slackware 14.1.

Thanks to Mr. Eugen Wissner we have a fast release of the 3.10 version of gnome 3.

This is a special and very exciting release for us, because after so many years we have finally be able to update and simplify even more our install process.

This release is the first release to use the famous gnome 3 PackageKit tool to install on your Slackware distribution the gnome 3.10 desktop.

As this is still an ALPHA state release we do not encourage you to use it on a production machine, although it is very stable and complete.

Alpha state for us, as a development team means, that the desktop is compiled in all of its parts, but not yet fine tuned and bugs free. This is our next thing to be done on the road to make it stable and bugs free.

To install it please follow the few simple steps below:

1) Download the correct package of PackageKit for your architecture of Slackware 14.1 linux system.
for Slackware 14.1
PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-i686-1dl_install.txz
PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-i686-1dl_install.txz.md5
for Slackware64 14.1
PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-x86_64-1dl_install.txz
PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-x86_64-1dl_install.txz.md5

2) As root user issue the following commands:
# installpkg PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-i686-1dl_install.txz
or
# installpkg PackageKit-0.8.15_6111975-x86_64-1dl_install.txz

3) Update the package reopsitory
# pkcon refresh force
4) Download and install the packages
# pkcon install dropline

After that some tweaks are needed to run the desktop, first of all make sure you have export LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 un commented in your /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and change the run level to level 4 in the /etc/inittab.

With all that in place you should get the new dropline GNOME 3.10 Alpha desktop up and running.

Please report bugs on http://bugs.droplinegnome.org .

The dropline GNOME development team !

Hi to all, its a while since Slackware 14.1 has been released and thanks to our fellows Eugen and Bart we have already build up all the needed packages for the next version of the dropline GNOME release. The 3.10 packages will be soon available for testing with the installer.

In the upcoming 3.10 release we’ll have also a possibility for the more adventurous to try the packages of our desktop with systemd. Since Gnome is more and more pushing onto that direction, we think that sooner or later will have to include this part of software to our packages. Thanks to Mr. Bart, we have now a working desktop
of gnome 3.10 built on Slackware 14.1 with systemd. This is not meant that the final release will be with systemd but only as an option for who wants to help us with the development of the upcoming releases. We still have not defined nor decided if we will fight against systemd and loose some of the gnome functionality or if we will
simply adopt it for one of the next releases.

As a third thing, also Wayland is being tested for the upcoming releases.

Lastly, we wish sorry for the downtimes we had those days, but this was due to moving the domain from one account to another and we were forced to redo all the suff up from scratch. With this we hope now to unify a bit more our development tools and have everything easily accessible.

Stay tuned and if you wish step in to give us a hand with the development as there is lots of different fields one can contribute with.

The dropline GNOME development team.