Re: [opensuse-gnome] Abandoning Unity for some time...

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Sam Spilsbury wrote:

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:

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Dear all,

Regarding Unity, I haven't reached actually satisfactory results from most of the git snapshots I've made from Compiz. I haven't managed to even launch it one single time (currently breaks because of missing keys in gconf), and the only thing I'm getting from it is actually frustration. I recon now this task requires far more than I can offer, so I'm leaving it behind until it reaches a more mature state, hopefully with an official release of Compiz and more documentation from Compiz/Unity.

Hi Nelson,

I am the compiz maintainer :) Could you let me know what the problems you are facing are? There are some stability problems at the moment, but I am sure it is something simple that we might have overlooked when doing this.

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If anyone wants to take it, go for it, I'm not deleting any packages and will continue updating them. If no one looks into it, I'll wait until there's an official release from Compiz from the development branch required for Unity and pick it up from there, hopefully by then, things will be more mature. Right now, all I'm getting out of this is frustration, and this is neither good for me or openSUSE, it's supposed to be fun... Either way I have many reservations regarding if a non-tech oriented person like me will ever be able to pull this one out, I have this tiny feeling it's too much sand for my truck.

Regarding releases there should be one in the next coming days, before the feature freeze. At the moment git is a little bit all over the place since we're shuffling to try and get the feature specifications implemented before freeze (for example I plan to dump a +3000 line diff to the gtk decorator in the coming days and that isn't going to be too much fun). My apologies for that.

Sam, Thanks for jumping in. I will wait until such release happens and I will check with Dominique (whom I believe to be behind the packaging of compiz for openSUSE) to see the best way to build that release, and will take it from there. My problems with compiz aren't related to stability, but to libcompizconfig which seems to be failing to pick up unity.ini and use it. I will take a closer look later on when we have a release, and it's better we take it from there. We'll see if we can bring this to good harbor. Nelson.

If anybody needs any help with this, please feel free to shoot me a note or ping me on irc (smspillaz on freenode) and I should be able to be of assistance

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NM

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