Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 14:13 -0300, Evandro Giovanini wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Olav Vitters wrote: > >> I thought the work that went into GTK+ 3.4 (GMenu) should allow Unity to > >> use that functionality instead of any patches. Not 100% sure on this. It > >

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-24 Thread Evandro Giovanini
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: >> I thought the work that went into GTK+ 3.4 (GMenu) should allow Unity to >> use that functionality instead of any patches. Not 100% sure on this. It >> does require that GTK+ applications make use of GMenu (and only a fe

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-24 Thread Nelson Marques
2012/7/24 Kevin Kofler : > Nelson Marques wrote: >> + 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this >> one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently >> the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was >> declined by GTK+ upstream, to be confi

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nelson Marques wrote: > + 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this > one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently > the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was > declined by GTK+ upstream, to be confirmed in the next days ) I real

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Olav Vitters wrote: > I thought the work that went into GTK+ 3.4 (GMenu) should allow Unity to > use that functionality instead of any patches. Not 100% sure on this. It > does require that GTK+ applications make use of GMenu (and only a few > do). Usually when GMenu support is added you see some n

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > The most interesting part - the QML based desktop is over, so > waiting for Plasma 2 :) Well, that part was to be expected after the announcement that QML 2 would require OpenGL. The whole goal of Unity 2D was to NOT require OpenGL. So Nokia killed this. Kevin K

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:05:25PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > It would be better to think of this as a starting point for porting > > and to work out the packaging issue instead of an enduser consumable. > > Porting Unity outside of Ubuntu is not going to be easy for anyone. > > There's a rea

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:26 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Note for the record - I'm perfectly willing to give up my maintainership > > of the few packages I own from my old abortive effort to package Unity. > > I have bamf, libindicator and

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Nelson Marques
Matthias, Thanks for the info, I've left this behind a long time ago and I'm not really considering jumping in again; I only found it amusing because the original work on that repository was made by me in 2010 and for some time. My comments were based on the experience I had. Good too know that t

Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Damian Ivanov
Hello all, First I had a problem posting to the list, but that was my fault sorry, forgot to confirm the subscription :) I am one of the two maintainers of GNOME:Ayatana. Xiao-Lonng Chen did most of Fedora spec files writing, but recently I switched to Fedora too. Chen is now on vacation for a fe

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 00:19 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:59PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > >+ 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this > > one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently > > the only remnant of non-ups

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:33 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > an you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical > functionality patches which were actually submitted to the upstream > projects in question and were rejected. > My existing understanding is that unity can operate without any vendo

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:29 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On 07/19/2012 07:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > > Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own > > > version of > > > GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... > > > > I don't know what Ubuntu has bee

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > 2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta : > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques > > > wrote: > > >> I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I > > >> will mail > > >> tomorrow or during the

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-20 Thread Michael scherer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:55:54PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:29 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On 07/19/2012 07:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > > Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own version of > > > GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... > > > > I

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Note for the record - I'm perfectly willing to give up my maintainership > of the few packages I own from my old abortive effort to package Unity. > I have bamf, libindicator and probably one or two others I forgot about. > If anyone wants

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:29 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 07/19/2012 07:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own version of > > GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... > > I don't know what Ubuntu has been doing so far, but to be fair, probably > all

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > 2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta : > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques > > wrote: > >> I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I will mail > >> tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list. > > > > Let's

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:59PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: >+ 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this > one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently > the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was > declined by GTK+ upstrea

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > I'm not involved in this project anyway; If you can put me into direct contact with someone who is actively involved I'd be more than happy to discuss a potential roadmap towards a submittable set of packages, either in public or in priva

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Nelson Marques
2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta : > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques > wrote: >> I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I will mail >> tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list. > > Let's get an accurate picture of what is actually left for vendor > patches b

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I will mail > tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list. Let's get an accurate picture of what is actually left for vendor patches before we decide the current situatio

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Nelson Marques
2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta : > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nelson Marques > wrote: >> Are you ready to accept patches on GTK+ and potentially on Xorg that >> were declined from upstream? This should be your initial thoughts! > > Can you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical > func

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nelson Marques wrote: > Are you ready to accept patches on GTK+ and potentially on Xorg that > were declined from upstream? This should be your initial thoughts! Can you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical functionality patches which were actuall

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Nelson Marques
> It would be better to think of this as a starting point for porting > and to work out the packaging issue instead of an enduser consumable. > Porting Unity outside of Ubuntu is not going to be easy for anyone. > There's a reason why its not in Debian yet at all. Jeff, The GNOME:Ayatana repo was

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:29:13 +0200 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 07/19/2012 07:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own > > version of GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... > > I don't know what Ubuntu has been doing so far, but to be fair, > probably all

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Antonio Trande
2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jussi Lehtola > wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200 > > Antonio Trande wrote: > >> 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) > >> > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have > >> > managed to successfully make Ub

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/19/2012 07:01 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own version of GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... I don't know what Ubuntu has been doing so far, but to be fair, probably all major Linux distros and, on a more general scope probably all OSes s

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200 > Antonio Trande wrote: >> 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) >> > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have >> > managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora >>

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200 Antonio Trande wrote: > 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) > > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have > > managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora > > 17[1]. What kind of work would be needed to get these people

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/19/2012 11:23 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: What kind of work would be needed to get these people to be able to bring their work into the Fedora repository so that everyone can easily choose to use it without breaking stuff? From the looks of it I'm pretty sure they will need to patch

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Nelson Marques
Dangerous road you follow. Best of luck. On Jul 19, 2012 11:23 AM, "Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)" wrote: > Hello, > > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have > managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora 17[1]. > What kind of work would be needed to get

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Antonio Trande
2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) > Hello, > > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have > managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora 17[1]. > What kind of work would be needed to get these people to be able to bring > their work into the Fedora repo

Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
Hello, This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora 17[1]. What kind of work would be needed to get these people to be able to bring their work into the Fedora repository so that everyone can easily choose to