On 3 March 2012 11:38, Balló György <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the question. > >> I looked at your AUR packages and saw that you are maintaining the >> unity desktop. I never used this desktop environment, but as a >> curiosity is it something you want to eventually bring into [community] ? > > I worked a lot on making Unity and indicators usable on Arch Linux, but > I don't want to add any of these packages[1] into [community], because > Ubuntu heavily patched gtk2, gtk3[2], metacity and compiz, and it's > impossible to build and/or use some packages with the upstream, > unmodified packages. They patched a lot of other packages also for > better integration into the panel and the launcher. > > So if GNOME developers accept some must have patches, then I could > imagine to add these packages, but until it does not happen, it's better > to keep them in a separated repo. (However I'm not sure that Ubuntu sent > all required patches to upstream yet.) > > > [1] Nearly all packages in ubuntu-unity and apps-unity directories on > https://github.com/City-busz/Arch-Linux-Repository > [2] E.g.: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658563
Is there a separate repo? Do you intend to start one otherwise? I would really like to see unity accessible for Arch users. Anyway, I don't know what all the fuss on workarounds is about, but I view "workarounds" as temporary fixes, nothing harmful. It is perfectly valid to work around limitations for which there is no current solution. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
