On 27.05.2012 16:46, JA Magallón wrote:
On 05/25/2012 09:10 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:52:36PM -0600, [email protected]
wrote:
Is there a binary package for Cinnamon Desktop on Mageia?
If not, is there an ongoing attempt to make it available?
Same answer as previous, see thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/10858
I took the wild road, and just installed the two rpms that are on the
Fedora 17 repos pointed from the cinnamon site. They even work !!!
I had to force the install due to some different names in requires,
but binaries seem to work.
There are two packages, one for the cinnamon shell itself, and other
for a window manager called 'muffin'. I think it even can work with
mutter or metacity.
So I think the changes are minimal, and probably just building the
package for Mageia and giving a session file for that would be
enough.
Just integration, no changes to anything else I think.
It doesn't look bad. Just an intermediate point between Gnome3 and 2.
And not so uuuuggggllllyyyy as Unity.
The latest Cinnamon is actually quite good, and for some people, better
than the stock GNOME 3 that shipped with Mageia 2.
I tired to compile it from source, but always ran into an error or the
other, so I let it go - for now.
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finid
