Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

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Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by taylorkh » 2019/09/29 13:39:43

The subject says it all. I cannot find Mate nor Xfce.

TIA,

Ken

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by Mike_Rochefort » 2019/09/29 16:27:52

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=71819

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P.S. But to answer, no there is not. At least in the first party supported repos (base/appstreams). All other desktop environments are in EPEL, and most have been waiting for the C8 release to rebuild.
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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by taylorkh » 2019/09/29 17:01:36

Thanks Mike,

I figured as much. I have been busy fighting issues with the 7.6 -> 7.7 upgrade so I am not planning to be an early adopter of 8. Still I thought I might have a look. The latest Gnome is worse than the last Gnome I came across which... Gnome has not been worth a darn since 2. That is why I use Mate :mrgreen:

CentOS 7 has another 4 years of support so I will be patient.

Ken

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by sauron_le_noir » 2019/09/29 18:15:23

I have just ported xfce 4.14 for centos 8.
https://sauronlenoir.be

Just the site in french is currentyl working sorry fort this
i will release the repo this week

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by taylorkh » 2019/09/29 19:41:40

Thank you sauron_le_noir,

I look forward to your repo.

Ken

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by sauron_le_noir » 2019/09/29 20:48:30

Te repo is online
don't forget to enable Centos-PowerTools.repo
change just the file /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos-PowerTools.repo enable=0 by enable=1
xfce need gdk-doc and he is provided by this repository

download & install all the rpms
I'm working for a group.xml so you just can do the installation with a group-install

I will try to translate my site from french to english and flemish this week

Enjoy

https://sauronlenoir.be select Portage de xfce sur centos 8

click on ce lien these will propose you a rpm that install the repository to your pc

here is the direct link to the release rpm for the repo : https://sauronlenoir.be/repo/rpm/sauron ... noarch.rpm

Source rpm are also provided on the site but are disable by default in the sauronlenoir-release.repo

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by taylorkh » 2019/09/29 21:02:00

Thank you again.

I will give it a try.

Ken

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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by TrevorH » 2019/09/29 21:17:09

There will be more desktops coming to EPEL, some may already be in a repo called EPEL-Playground which is installed (disabled) by the epel-release package.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by nouvo09 » 2019/09/29 21:28:52

sauron_le_noir wrote:
2019/09/29 18:15:23
I have just ported xfce 4.14 for centos 8.
https://sauronlenoir.be

Just the site in french is currentyl working sorry fort this
i will release the repo this week
Hi !

Tu pourrais aussi poster ça dans le forum français ?

https://fr.centos.org/forums/

ça serait cool ! Merci d'avance
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Re: Is there any desktop alternative to Gnome?

Post by KernelOops » 2019/10/01 09:46:14

Gnome 3 and its terrible "Mac-like" user interface is pretty bad for power users, developers, devops and sysops. Lots of people abandoned Fedora due to Gnome 3 and went with other distros, at least these days there are Fedora Spins with alternative desktops.

I understand that RedHat has its own agenda for using this terrible user interface, but they should consider having at least one alternative available by default.

Lets not force people away from CentOS...
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