On 3 March 2012 11:38, Balló György <ballogyor@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the question.
I looked at your AUR packages and saw that you are maintaining the unity desktop. I never used this desktop environment, but as a curiosity is it something you want to eventually bring into [community] ?
I worked a lot on making Unity and indicators usable on Arch Linux, but I don't want to add any of these packages[1] into [community], because Ubuntu heavily patched gtk2, gtk3[2], metacity and compiz, and it's impossible to build and/or use some packages with the upstream, unmodified packages. They patched a lot of other packages also for better integration into the panel and the launcher.
So if GNOME developers accept some must have patches, then I could imagine to add these packages, but until it does not happen, it's better to keep them in a separated repo. (However I'm not sure that Ubuntu sent all required patches to upstream yet.)
[1] Nearly all packages in ubuntu-unity and apps-unity directories on https://github.com/City-busz/Arch-Linux-Repository [2] E.g.: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658563
Is there a separate repo? Do you intend to start one otherwise? I would really like to see unity accessible for Arch users. Anyway, I don't know what all the fuss on workarounds is about, but I view "workarounds" as temporary fixes, nothing harmful. It is perfectly valid to work around limitations for which there is no current solution. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1