[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon Desktop

Mon May 28 01:21:15 CEST 2012

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, finid at linuxbsdos.com 
+>> 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.
+
+
+--
+finid
+
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