[gentoo-user] unity on Gentoo

2013-06-10 Thread András Csányi
Good morning All, I have seen there is a unitiy overlay and have read the forum topic about it. On the other hand, I have used unity for a few weeks when installed ubuntu one of my week moments. To be honest, I liked unity. My question is that worth to install it on gentoo? As I can see it

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread James Broadhead
On 25 September 2011 03:15, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. It wouldn't be the first time that they've effectively tested software by pushing it out

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:56 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 September 2011 03:15, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 17:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: … But with Unity the problem is much more than being pushed before time: Unity is a project sponsored by Canonical, and if you want to contribute code to it, you need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), … … I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 25 September 2011, at 17:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: … But with Unity the problem is much more than being pushed before time: Unity is a project sponsored by Canonical, and if you want to contribute code to

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 20:54 +0100, Stroller wrote: The end users do not give a monkey's uncle about the CLA. They just want to use the software, and our distro already provides Sun Java binaries, Unreal Tournament and stuff under all sorts of licenses. If people want to use it, and it's in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: The end users do not give a monkey's uncle about the CLA. They just want to use the software, and our distro already provides Sun Java

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 23:17, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: … I think the important thing, for me anyway, is not the general user community, but the open source development community. Most of those people reluctant to sign their code over to another organization. None of this has got anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 21:21, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: … At the moment there are very mixed feelings about Unity. There are a good number of people who hate it, but there are some others who say I love it, except that I hate that it doesn't let me move the menu bar. Because Unity is

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Dale
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I found this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi! As I know Unity is a cannonical thing, not a gnome or ubuntu issue. I even wouldn't wonder if that application is closed source that is destributed only through the apt cannonical package mirror APT list. Tamer Am 24.09.2011 09:31, schrieb Dale: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 September 2011, at 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? It's available for Arch Fedora.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread James Broadhead
On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having *tried* to use it). Once you have,

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 11:23 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I'm sure *when* there is enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread JD Horelick
On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? What you're missing is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS

[gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-23 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com