Semplice 7 Screencast and Screenshots

jeremy · 04-08-2015, 09:58 PM

Semplice 7 - Boot and Desktop

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Every revolution starts with a small step. Semplice 7 is ours.
Since our first release 5 years ago, our goal was to create an innovative and lightweight operating system, and not being a "me-too" Openbox-based distribution like many are showing up lately.
Admittedly, we have been good at being an Openbox-based distribution. Semplice 6 was our own peak and I'm truly proud of it.
But it's time to move on.

It's my pleasure to announce the release of Semplice 7, codenamed "Comfortably Numb".

Functionally and aesthetically wise, you won't find that many differences with Semplice 6. But under-the-hood there are plenty.
Openbox became a component of the Desktop Environment, and not the Desktop Environment itself.
This distinction will help me introduce vera, a plugin-based GTK+3 Desktop Environment, made from scratch by us.
Currently Openbox and tint2 run as plugins, but they will eventually get replaced by our own ones.
We are not fan of the NIH thing, but personally I feel that this is the right step to make in order to get things up and running on Wayland.

Wayland is the future and it's actually already production-ready (I, for example, already run it in my phone, and it's pretty damn exciting).
We can't go on with GTK+2 and Xlib, and switching to GTK+3 is a time-consuming but necessary step.

This is a long road, and with Semplice 7 we are just at the beginning of it.
That doesn't mean that the release I'm announcing today is not stable or whatever. Just keep in mind that it's the good ol' Semplice, and do not expect too much (for now) by the new Desktop Environment.

That said, the changes in this release are indeed huge and this blog post is probably not the right place to list them all.
You can have a look at the release notes here.

http://semplice-linux.org/blog/2015/...ice-7-released

--jeremy