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Juanito:
'progress being made - application icons are now visible (see screenshots)

Juanito:
restructured things a little - loading gnome-session will load all needed extensions to start, dbus and networkmanager need to be started before "startx"

Juanito:
networkmanager now working properly for wired connections with the help of some patches.

Strangely enough, with the network up, sound started working - see screenshot - so some more work needed somewhere...

Juanito:
bluez-5 and pulseaudio-5 seemed to be required - sound now working and the possibility to swap between speakers and bluetooth headphones - see attached.

As per google, some sort of mix up between bluez, gnome and pulseaudio means the microphone part of a bluetooth headset will not work  ???

Now to track down which extensions have a hard dep on pulseaudio-4  :(

Juanito:
After discovering that the wl-modules-3.8.13-tinycore64.tcz extension had been updated in the x86 repo, but not the x86_64 repo, networkmanager will now connect over wifi with a non-broadcast ssid - it seems the previous driver needed a wpa_supplicant setting that has been depreciated for 8 years...

So, networking, sound, printing and bluetooth all work with corepure64 and gnome-3.

Given that gnome-3.10.x must be at least the fourth or fifth "stable" iteration of gnome-3, it's somewhat suprising how little basic functionality there is (you cannot change the date format for example), how buggy many of the components are (networkmanager needed patches to connect to a wired network), how poor the graphics performance is (the display backgound continually "whites out" for example) and how many cpu cycles are required to do nothing.

With the latter in mind, I've been testing with an intel i7 core duo (i.e. four cpu cores) and intel hd3000 graphics - if anybody has tested with more powerful graphics, I'd be interested to hear about it.

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