[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon Desktop

[finid at linuxbsdos.com]

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.


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finid