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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon Desktop</H1>
<B>finid at linuxbsdos.com</B>
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<I>Mon May 28 01:21:15 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 27.05.2012 16:46, JA Magallón wrote:
><i> On 05/25/2012 09:10 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
</I>>><i> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:52:36PM -0600, <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">finid at linuxbsdos.com</A>
</I>>><i> wrote:
</I>>>><i> Is there a binary package for Cinnamon Desktop on Mageia?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> If not, is there an ongoing attempt to make it available?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Same answer as previous, see thread:
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/10858">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/10858</A>
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</I>><i> I took the wild road, and just installed the two rpms that are on the
</I>><i> Fedora 17 repos pointed from the cinnamon site. They even work !!!
</I>><i> I had to force the install due to some different names in requires,
</I>><i> but binaries seem to work.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> There are two packages, one for the cinnamon shell itself, and other
</I>><i> for a window manager called 'muffin'. I think it even can work with
</I>><i> mutter or metacity.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So I think the changes are minimal, and probably just building the
</I>><i> package for Mageia and giving a session file for that would be
</I>><i> enough.
</I>><i> Just integration, no changes to anything else I think.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It doesn't look bad. Just an intermediate point between Gnome3 and 2.
</I>><i> And not so uuuuggggllllyyyy as Unity.
</I>
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
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