Gnome is a simple beat keeper for musicians. I made it because I couldn't find a usable metronome for the Mac platform. It's drummer oriented but should be usable by anyone needing to keep time. Install them via the CLI using the following command: $ sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions Once the installation is complete, reboot your machine, launch the GNOME Tweak Tool, navigate to Extensions and click to enable the extensions that you want to use.
Gnome Settings App
Install Gnome Apps On Macbook
Well, if you go with OpenDarwin you wouldn't be able to run Apple software, because that would replace OS X. You can still use KDE or Gnome with fink, but why bother? All you need is the X server so you can run X apps, why clutter it with a bunch of icons, menus, etc that just take up memory? Blackbox will let you run X apps just as well, and it won't take up nearly as much memory.
I've used both Evolution and Mail.app (the default mail client with OS X) and I have to say that Mail.app does pretty much everything I want. It doesn't have the integrated calendar and news feeds, but OS X has iCal for calendar and you can get news feeds with other third party programs. Also, I've had a lot of instability problems with Evolution at different points (depending on the version of the various GTK dependencies), I've never had a problem with Mail.app crashing.
Now there will always be some things that only run in X and don't have an OS X port, but I would avoid running anything in X unless I had to since stuff runs much more effeciently and with much more stability when it's native.
I've used both Evolution and Mail.app (the default mail client with OS X) and I have to say that Mail.app does pretty much everything I want. It doesn't have the integrated calendar and news feeds, but OS X has iCal for calendar and you can get news feeds with other third party programs. Also, I've had a lot of instability problems with Evolution at different points (depending on the version of the various GTK dependencies), I've never had a problem with Mail.app crashing.
Now there will always be some things that only run in X and don't have an OS X port, but I would avoid running anything in X unless I had to since stuff runs much more effeciently and with much more stability when it's native.