On 09/12/2012 10:05 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long additionally maintains also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open build service https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME %3AAyatana It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity works on openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE with unity. We would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this would not be done by us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long is working on Fedora and openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want to do it also with obs on GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure of a package is as follows:
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There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in Mageia: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=130 It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The spec files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each other.
I have no voice nor vote, but I really would prefer Mageia invest efforts if any on integrating Cinnamon better than Unity. But that is just personal stuff... -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Winter is coming...
