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outdated es.wikipedia.org version of elementary OS

I just noticed the version of this article in es.wikipedia.org is a bit outdated and I would like someone to complete it since I suck at spanish XD Penguin330 — Preceding undated comment added 11:40, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speculative paragraph about 0.4 Loki

The whole paragraph about 0.4 is pure speculation. I removed it a few weeks ago as there was a blog post about 0.4 based on this wikipedia entry, but someone undid it, so I'm back to discuss this. The launchpad milestone is a collection of might happen blueprints and bugs. The team itself has no clear target as of yet regarding 0.4, including base distro (there were some hints of switching to Debian) and there is no way a Wikipedia paragraph should reference an more or less project-internal bug/feature tracker. If there is no objection, I would like to remove it (again). Maybe in a few weeks. Embikk (talk) 12:21, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. Sorry about that, I should included the "planning stages" phrase so the paragraph would be complete. Oops Sorry! Penguin330 — Preceding undated comment added 11:38, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This not what I intended. Everything in there is still speculation and not proven (because it's not true, simple as that). Everything that is not an official blog or G+ post from elementary should be considered a doubtful source as it is not official. Embikk (talk) 13:23, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks, let me check a little while if there's an article about eOS 0.4 that can be tagged as a reliable source. ~User:Penguin330 —Preceding undated comment added 13:27, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Included apps

Excuse me if I am wrong, but aren't Maya and Noise still called Maya and Noise, just not in eOS? So the included app names should probably be Maya and Noise instead of Calendar and Music. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CameronNemo (talk • contribs) 02:38, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They're still Maya and Noise, mate. But eOS devs are planning a general name for the base pantheon apps. - Penguin330

Being as they're still referred to as Maya and Noise in the development repos I think its safe to assume that they are the correct names, even if the elementary team decide to give them general names in the launcher. Went ahead and made the correction and added a link to Calendaring software for Maya to keep it in line with the rest - Foggalong (talk) 20:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maintaining validity of article

Sup Fellow Editors who are editing here! Should we always keep track of changes weekly so we can see if they're any changes on it's launchpad repo? and also check the links if they're dead? that would help to validate some of the sources and citations here.Peace! Penguin330 (Penguin330)

Pantheon Apps

Screenshots of pantheon software

This article seriously lacks some good screenshots of the various pantheon software. It would certainly not hurt the article to have screenshots of all the versions. Personally I am rather interested in installing pantheon software in Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu/etc. then in Elementary OS. User:ScotXW^t@lk 09:54, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wingpanel

Is https://launchpad.net/wingpanel written from scratch or is it a fork of the old GNOME Panel? (GNOME Panel was abandoned and replaced by GNOME Shell) User:ScotXW^t@lk 09:59, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Platforms

Hi,

According to the website elementary.io - the OS only runs on x86_64 (aka 64-bit) as of 0.4 Loki 32-bit was removed and no-longer used. Could x86 in the Platform section in the infobox be removed since its an unsupported version now? DarkstarCommand (talk) 18:45, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?

‘…amount populating by default…’

English translation, anybody? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.9.156.220 (talk) 20:46, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation of blanket revert on 6 January 2016

Hello.

As you might have noticed, on 6 January 2016, I reverted the article to the last known good state, reverting three contributions by two editors. Here is an explanation of why:

Change	Why it was bad
"Elementary OS" in the infobox was changed to "elementary OS"	MOS:STABILITY. The article consistently uses the uppercase form already. Also, the cited sources prefer that form.
"Family" was changed from "Unix-like" to "Linux"	According to {{Infobox OS}}'s documentation, "Linux" is not a family. (I agree. It is a kernel.)
Software version number was moved from `\|latest_preview_version=` into `\|latest_release_version=`	Study software versioning: Any version number below 1.0 is a beta version number.
apt-get was changed to APT	APT is a disambiguation page. Please check your target links!
Working state was changed from "In beta stage" to "Current"	1. Study software versioning: Any version number below 1.0 is a beta version number. 2. "Current" is a forbidden word per WP:DATED
"based on Ubuntu" was changed to "based on current Ubuntu LTS release"	1. "Current" is a forbidden word per WP:DATED 2. This means that any and all version of Elementary OS released to this date was based on one Ubuntu version, which is wrong.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 07:34, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Design Philosophy - "deeply integrated" [citation needed]

I think I'm just going to remove this line. It isn't at all true; the pantheon components are quite modular and can be used independently of the Pantheon desktop environment. It's also unclear to what this section is referring to when it uses the word "shell". This has been a buzzword ever since GNOME-Shell. The most basic Pantheon Desktop features a window manager, gala (which is easily replaceable), an applications menu, clock, and indicator panel, wingpanel (which is also replaceable), a dock application, plank (which is also replaceable, and a watchdog that keeps the desktop components runing, cerbere (which is not really required). The software suite is entirely optional.

There's also contractor, which provides some framework for applications and the desktop components to interact, but it isn't required.

There are numerous partial implementations of Pantheon out there, using Docky instead of Plank, budgie-panel instead of wingpanel, compiz or openbox in place of gala, etc. Nothing strongly holds these components together, although they are designed to work and look good together. The only thing "tightly integrated" about them is their visual design--the pantheon components and the patched and original applications in their software suite are both aesthetically and technically very streamlined--but they work just as well with other applications as any do in Linux (what Linux desktop doesn't use a multi-toolkit software suite?). 220.221.136.253 (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]