Going forward with GNOME-based Onyx

[ihatethefrench]

Going forward, with Onyx being a custom GNOME session, rather than a customized Budgie release, how should we handle packaging and whatnot?

I'm of the belief that we should keep shipping the old onyx as onyx and ship the new package as onyx-gnome-session, but I'd love to hear everyone's opinions on this first

[axtloss]

While that probably is the best way, we can't continue maintaining onyx forever, so there should be some way of letting the users of budgie onyx know that the onyx they're using isn't properly maintained anymore.

[SomethingGeneric]

It’s just a metapkg so there’s not really any reason it should break but yeah we could add a post install hook to print a warning or something. (Again, once we have something better that’s been deployed, and not before)

[axtloss]

Seeing that budgie may be moving away from gtk, at some point the themes we apply will break since they're not made for the enlightenment toolkit

[ihatethefrench]

Budgie 10 is actually going to be actively maintained as GTK, whilst Budgie 11 will be under a different package for this exact reason

[axtloss]

Oh, then a postinstall hook that prints a warning would be the best solution imo

[ihatethefrench]

That sounds like a good idea, ofc the main plan is to, y'know, not force-update people's budgie systems to suddenly have GNOME and GDM

[SomethingGeneric]

For sure, don’t want to ever reduce functionality if we can help it