[gentoo-user] unity on Gentoo

2013-06-09 Thread András Csányi
Good morning All, I have seen there is a unitiy overlay and have read the forum topic about it. On the other hand, I have used unity for a few weeks when installed ubuntu one of my week moments. To be honest, I liked unity. My question is that worth to install it on gentoo? As I can see it require

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 21:21, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> … >> At the moment there are very mixed feelings about Unity. There are a good >> number of people who hate it, but there are some others who say "I love it, >> except that I hate that it doesn't let me move the menu bar". Because Un

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 23:17, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > … > I think the important thing, for me anyway, is not the general user > community, but the "open source" development community. Most of those > people reluctant to sign their code over to another organization. None of this has got any

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> The end users do not give a monkey's uncle about the CLA. They just want to >> use the software, and our distro already provides Sun Java binaries, Unreal >> Tournament and stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 20:54 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The end users do not give a monkey's uncle about the CLA. They just > want to use the software, and our distro already provides Sun Java > binaries, Unreal Tournament and stuff under all sorts of licenses. If > people want to use it, and it's in

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 September 2011, at 17:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> … >> But with Unity the problem is much more than being pushed before time: >> Unity is a project sponsored by Canonical, and if you want to >> contribute code to it, you need to sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 September 2011, at 17:05, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > … > But with Unity the problem is much more than being pushed before time: > Unity is a project sponsored by Canonical, and if you want to > contribute code to it, you need to sign a "Contributor License > Agreement" (CLA), … > > … I

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:56 AM, James Broadhead wrote: > On 25 September 2011 03:15, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with >> Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. > > It wouldn't be the first time that they've

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread James Broadhead
On 25 September 2011 03:15, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with > Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. It wouldn't be the first time that they've effectively tested software by pushing it out to their user-base

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: > On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead wrote: >> On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >>> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >>> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? >> >> What

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread JD Horelick
On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead wrote: > On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? > > What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or havin

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 11:23 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on > my system. > > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I'm sure *when* there is eno

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread James Broadhead
On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having *tried* to use it). Once you have, you will see why no o

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 September 2011, at 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on > my system. > > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? It's available for Arch & Fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi! As I know "Unity" is a cannonical thing, not a gnome or ubuntu issue. I even wouldn't wonder if that application is closed source that is destributed only through the apt cannonical package mirror APT list. Tamer Am 24.09.2011 09:31, schrieb Dale: > Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Okay the thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Dale
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I found this: http://forums-web1.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6688195.html

[gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-23 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com