On 07/18/2014 10:07 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:03:37 -0300 Marco Calistri wrote:
Wow!
This is a real beautiful, fast and full featured Desktop Environment which I do not understand why it is not being installed as default or among the default ones in OpenSUSE.
I installed it with:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Cinnamon:/Factory/openSUSE_13... Cinnamon
And it is wonderful!
Thanks for sharing this, Marco.
I'm extremely fond of Cinnamon on Mint, so much so that I keep it installed in parallel on my main system, along with openSUSE 12.3 / KDE4. It was my top candidate to replace the openSUSE 11.4 / GNOME2 installation I'd run through EOL. Had I not possessed enough GPU to support KDE4 properly, I'd have probably switched distributions at that time ... Cinnamon is that good, for sure.
If you don't mind some questions...
My take on this:
What, beyond adding the repository, was required to get it installed?
run 'sudo zypper install cinnamon' That brings in the 'cinnamon' pattern and hence 164 new packages. They include Networkmanager-gnome gnome-terminal Also, and I'm unclear why, cinnamon-bluetooth and wpa-supplicant even though this is a desktop with no wifi or bt capability. So I have Information for package cinnamon: --------------------------------- Repository: Cinnamon Name: cinnamon Version: 2.3.0-1.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/X11 Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 5.4 MiB Summary: A Linux Desktop featuring a tranditional layout Description: The Cinnamon Desktop provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The underlying technology is forked from gnome-shell and the desktop layout is closer to GNOME2. The emphasis is put on making users look and feel at home and provide them an easy to use and confortable experience. So, this is 2.3 What version do you have with Mint, Car?
Did you already know how to do this or is there a guide somewhere?
"Bleedin' obvious, ain't it?" as someone once said. No, really. Marco gave this http://it.opensuse.org/Portal:Cinnamon and I tried this http://opensuse.org/Portal:Cinnamon and BINGO! Mind you, having already started up cinnamon and tried out various things it didn't tell me anything I hadn't already discovered.
Was the process seamless or did you have to fiddle around?
It depends what you mean by that. The first thing I did was change the background and font size so I could see what was on screen more clearly. That's me an my environment, so it may not really count. While In system settings I stepped though each item to see what was there and made some adjustments to see what happened. As I said, a lot of what I though should happen, would have happened if this was KDE systemsettings and could be "OK/apply" never happened until I logged out and logged back in.
When did you install it?
Friday night.
Have you encountered any issues, major or minor, since?
The biggest issue was that one with the "NoAccell". -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org