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Incoming V2 - How to talk about it and beta testers #40

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Hello everyone !

Im currently working hard on the next step of the project and very soon it's will be ready to be beta tested before the big release.

But unfortunately I don't know how to communicate with you guys, I'll start with an issue here but we need to found a better way for me to push some informations. Any idea??

Why a V2 and What is inside?

When I released Material Awesome I had 3 frustrations:
The first was the lack of animations. The Material design guidelines are full of delightful animations and I wanted to have some to help understand how the system work and to propose a nicer interface.
The second was the difficulty to install. I had a tons of messages telling me that the project was awesome and they would like to have a system like that but they had no clue how to install it or AwesomeWM. And after working hard on this I wanted it to be available for the maximum of peoples.
The last frustration was the feeling that I had to redevelop all the basic features of the system If i wanted them to be well integrated with my system. Like a calendar or a wifi picker like basic stuff. I would have prefer to focus on the desktop UX that's it.

So I started the V2: Material Shell.

A Gnome-shell extension bringing all the features of Awesome Material but directly inside GNOME and available in 2 clicks ! GNOME is the most used system in the linux community and provide a nice Javascript Animation API. And a full featured desktop with a high level of customization. It's was perfect for the evolution of the project.

But it's required basically a complete rewrite of the project and much more. I never planned to work so much time on this project but I had a tons of good feedback on this and I want to bring the best experience possible !

The Beta should be available later this month and I will need some help to test it and fix the most obvious bugs before releasing it.

Thanks to all of you guys. If you a reading this lines, know that I worked hard for you and it's was a pleasure !

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