On 19-03-13 03:18, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I'm a Fedora project contributor, interested in GTK-based desktops, > and as such am planning to bring the Elementary desktop to Fedora (if > there's enough interest, hopefully creating a Fedora "spin" for it, > joining our KDE, Xfce, LXDE, etc. spins). > > I'm starting packaging work of components making up the Luna release, > and am looking forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions as I > proceed; I'll be submitting bug reports on Launchpad as I find them > (e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/granite/+bug/1156961 on Granite > licensing) > > Quick question: does the Elementary Dock have a hard dependency on > Unity? It's mentioned in the Luna page on the website but I've not > gotten that far in my packaging, so I can't tell yet if the dependency > is optional or a requirement.
Dear Michel, To first quickly answer your question, yes the Pantheon Dock does have an indirect dependency on libunity (a helper library for instrumenting- and integrating with all aspects of the Unity shell). I'm involved in a similar effort as yours, but in this case I'm packaging the elementary packages for Gentoo Linux, a rolling-release source-based distribution. You can find the results in my overlay on https://github.com/pimvullers/elementary. I did a quick search and found some packages depending on libunity(-webapps): - slingshot (the application launcher) - switchboard (the control center) - bamf (dependency of pantheon-dock) I would like to get rid of this dependency, but haven't had time to investigate this. So for now I just also packaged libunity(-webapps). Hope this helps. Kind regards, Pim Vullers -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
