Hello,

This is very interesting and I am certainly waiting to see how it turns out. Good luck!

Two things I would suggest are:

1) See if you can modify all your stuff to install to /opt/mate so that it does not conflict with the current linux tree because in the future there will undoubtedly be situations where you need a certain version of a library for most applications but still require the older version for gnome2.

2) I like the Arch build system but you might get more interest if you create a very simple and generic linux (and unix) build system or script that works across distros just to compile gnome2. That way people using e.g fedora will still be able to join in with your efforts.

You might find the following link interesting:-

http://gnome.bullfreeware.com/

Although this uses the RPM system (and for IBM AIX) it shows the approximate number of packages you will end up needing to maintain. It isn't impossible so I wish you the best of luck!

This project could also be very beneficial because gnome2 can finally stop changing and start being made faster and more stable.

Last edited by kpedersen (2011-07-02 19:51:27)