Incoming V2 - How to talk about it and beta testers about material-awesome HOT 13 OPEN

Maybe a discord server? It's a good way to be able to make announcements and also for people to post questions and such.

Oh and I'm really interested in this v2, definitely gonna give it a go.

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@aislanmaia You don't have to be worry about that. I am bringing all the most important feature we got to GNOME that's mean the layout, the workflow and of course the windows tiling.
It's should only be better in every way. It's just asked a lot of worked and I've done it !

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I really liked the layout of MW v1. Do you think is possible to maintain that? And I don't know the support of Gnome for window tiles (and keyboard shortcuts), that was the basic and more appreciated feature of AwesomeWM + Material. 😞

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@PapyElGringo let us know how we can help you with the dev, since its now related to Gnome (GTK) things.. maybe, we need to learn GTK in the process to help to development this?

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Material-shell is a gnome-shell extension and it's all developed in Javascript Wis GJS and Clutter and we don't need to know about gtk. The main difficulty for me was to understand how the gnome-shell worked since the documentations about it are nearly inexistent so I studied his code source for a long time before being able to do what I wanted!

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A discord server seem yo be a good idea since Slack is mainly for private group! Any other ideas?

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One suggestion I have is more distro support. When I installed v1 I had to change a lot since Debian is not at all like Manjaro. One example was the package updater - I had to modify commands and Lua patterns to conform to apt-get instead of pacman. Someone who doesn’t know how everything in their system works will be confused when things don’t just work. Each module should have interchangeable functions that can be changed to adapt to a different distro, and some type of extensibility to allow users to add extra.

Another is a settings app, like what is in GnomeDE. Diving into a Lua file to change what app opens when you press the + button is cumbersome at best and difficult at worst. It should change things like that, but also handle the operations done by wicd, blueberry, etc.

Those two things would make Material Awesome way more awesome.

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Hey @nununoisy since the project is moving to be a Gnome extension, I think the things in Lua doesn't apply anymore.

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@nununoisy Indeed the v1 was made specifically for my config so you had to adapt it to your system but in the v2 it's will all be manage by GNOME it's self ! We only need to adapt the UI and the UX to match our needs.
Anyway the V2 has been think to be installed in 2 clicks !

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I get it now! Sorry for the confusion.

In that case, would there be a way to integrate some settings into the GNOME suite (i.e. within the Settings app shipped with GNOME, or possibly under gnome-tweak-tool)?

The extensibility no longer matters though - GNOME handles all of it.

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Yeah at the end we should have a settings page in the tweak tool to handle preferences.

I created the Discord if you want to join. But it's not configured at all for the moment :D

https://discord.gg/QS6ccCY

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the discord link expired ATM.. would like to hear the update about this even i recently move from using the DM especially gnome

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Strange... The discord link should be still usable but here a new one https://discord.gg/vBb7D9a.
And for the update of the project. The Alpha should be available this week and I will need some alpha testers to try it !

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