On Tue, February 10, 2009 11:12 pm, Joshua D Doll wrote: > Roy Wright wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: >>>> Saphirus Sage wrote: >>>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>>> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 >>>>>> >>>>>> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the >>>>>> amount of patches contributed upstream... >>>>> Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo >>>>> servers. I >>>>> don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute >>>>> more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of >>>>> one of them. >>>> This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu >>>> user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu >>>> community >>>> to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? >>>> Without having to change distributions. >>> >>> Gentoo involves you more with what goes bad under the bonnet and the >>> average Gentoo user is more interested in the workings of their OS to >>> attempt troubleshooting it and filing bugs. Your average Ubuntu user >>> is less likely to get their hands dirty, unless they are a dev. So, >>> essentially we are talking about different user profiles here. To >>> answer your friend's hypothetical question - he would either have to >>> change your average Ubuntu's user technical aptitude, or change the >>> user. Either attempt may mean the end of Ubuntu as we know it. >> >> The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is >> targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and >> getting no response while the later know it's their responsibility to >> help make it better... >> >> Have fun, >> Roy >> >> > I think you may be right with your assessment there Roy. The only > solution I could up with was to change distributions he didn't like that > suggestion, not sure why, because changing distros is like changing > underwear. Maybe he has some strange fascination with Ubunutu's pretty > color scheme?
Wouldn't the following solve that though? # echo "x11-themes/gtk-engines-ubuntulooks ~*" # emerge gtk-engines-ubuntulooks It's currently at version 0.9.12-r2. I have not used this, so I have no clue how well this works. -- Joost
