On 09/06/14 23:52, David Raphaël wrote: > Well thank you for your help. This is exactly the kind of trick I was looking > for. > Anyway, I think that all the desktops that are derived from Gnome should not > be installed on the same machine in order to avoid any troubles. > Unless of course it is possible to split the schemas into subset (one for > each desktop). However I do not really know the details.
Splitting out the schemas is simply not possible, the schemas need to be shared, since you have shared apps between the desktops! I suppose in theory glib could be made to do per-user per-session settings (still using the shared key), however that will never happen, and besides this will all become less of an issue once Unity 8 arrives. Further apart from the case of a user wanting a different theme in different desktops, there really shouldnt be any major issues arrising from the shared settings. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *De :* Martin Kelly [[email protected]] > *Envoyé :* vendredi, 6. juin 2014 05:36 > *À :* David Raphaël; [email protected] > *Objet :* RE: Gnome and Unity cohabitation > > Hey, > I use GNOME and Unity together without to many troubles. The trick to it from > my experience is not to install the full meta-package of both > desktop environment's, cause when you do, I have found that it causes > conflicts, issues and sometimes instability. What I mean by this is, > that install if you prefer Unity, you should really run Ubuntu first so you > have the full Unity experience, then install just the key GNOME > Packages for it to run and some of the extras you like. > For example I prefer gnome, so I have only install the unity and > ubuntu-session packages with there dependencies. > Another note is if you install Unity & GNOME, DO NOT install Cinnamon unless > your very good at unraveling an xorg/ desktop mess. There seems > to be massive conflicts when you try installing all 3 at least from my > experience. I would make the assumption its due to all being > gnome-shell based with similar dependencies. > > I realize this isn't exactly what your asking or saying, but hopefully it > helps. > > Martin > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: David Raphaël <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: 6/06/2014 5:28 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Gnome and Unity cohabitation > > Hello Ubuntu Gnome Team! > Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Gnome from my Ubuntu with Unity. I desire to > use it at some ocasion but still want to stay with Unity for most > of my work. And there is something that bother me in the sense that it set up > Ubuntu Gnome as the default desktop of the OS. What I mean is > that all my sessions have the Gnome flag marked as default in lightdm. And I > honestly think that the default desktop should never be changed, > for the user not to get lost. I know that Gnome is tightly linked with Unity > in the sense that they have to share the gconf schemas. So I > suppose that installing Gnome overrided the schemas from unity. This schemas > sharing also produced some troubles of compatibility between both > desktops (for example when changing the windows theme). > So here is my question: > Do you think it would be technically possible to have better separation > between the schemas of Gnome and Unity in oder to make them cohabite > in a better way? > I think it would be a great improvement for people who want to test Gnome > Shell without breaking their Unity desktop. > Thank you and congratulations for your amazing work! Your shell is rock > solid! :-) > Raphaël David > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
