[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Wed Sep 12 23:53:22 CEST 2012

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:
+...
+>>> 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...
+