I have read the article of Nelson Marques about porting Unity to openSUSE: openSUSE Lizards
Poking around the repo of the Ayatana Project Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Ayatana i have seen that repos for 11.4, 12.1 and Factory are created. I added the factory repo and installed unity, unity lens and apps+ dependencies without any problem. Just to be sure i have started Gnome 3 and it works well. Now my questions is this: how do i start unity? using metacity --replace unity-window-decorator did not helped. Im curios about Unity under openSUSE and i want to give a little test drive. Can someone give me a hand with this ? 
On 10/26/2011 03:26 PM, creatura85 wrote:
> I have read the article of Nelson Marques … Can
> someone give me a hand with this ?
did Nelson Marques not include ways to contact him?
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:18:38 +0000, DenverD wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 03:26 PM, creatura85 wrote:
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>> I have read the article of Nelson Marques … Can someone give me a
>> hand with this ?
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> did Nelson Marques not include ways to contact him?
He’s actually been around the forums the past couple of days - so
hopefully he’ll see this thread.
Jim
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On 10/26/2011 08:33 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> He’s actually been around the forums the past couple of days - so
> hopefully he’ll see this thread.
GREAT!! Welcome Nelson wherever you are!!
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hendersj: can you tell me his user name so i can send him a PM and tell him about this topic ?
DenverD: i can see it now… Ubuntu users coming to openSUSE just because Unity works better and under the hood Yast powering the OS 
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:03 +0000, creatura85 wrote:
> hendersj: can you tell me his user name so i can send him a PM and tell
> him about this topic ?
I’ll drop him a PM for you.
Jim
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Hi,
Unity and Unity-2D miss the gnome-session files, and the reason why Unity is there is because it provides a core library that is required to build other applications (unity-core-4.0). I currently have really no time to look into that as between my $dayjob, specialization and some study for Red Hat Certified Engineer I have not much time to dedicate to it.
There’s two reasons why the repository is there:
- Because there’s nice stuff there that might be useful for other packages. One example of this was Gwibber, which required ‘dee’, and the fact that it was on GNOME:Ayatana saved someones time to package it. There are strong possibilities that some other stuff there might be useful in the future.
- Because someone else might want to dedicate some time to it (time I don’t have anymore) and might want to pick up on the job.
I’m doing once in a while some updates to packages, but there’s really no intention of making Unity work as I am aware now (wasn’t when I started) of the ammount of time required to provide a decent working Unity Desktop. Maintaining GTK+ (2 and 3), Qt, Compiz and then on top of it all the 50+ packages, it’s not a task for a single person, unless you have 8 hours a day to give to it.
My advice towards GNOME:Ayatana is simple, leave it there… It might come to work one day (hopefully), as it might just never work (depends a lot on how Canonical does their stuff).
My humble opinion towards Unity is simple: GNOME3 kicks ass and it doesn’t relly one 1000 hacks, use it! Else you can join me around Fluxbox which is what I currently use
hendersj: thank you.
ketheriel: i understand that a lot of work i needed and i hope that you will get some help to continue what you have started there. I have tested Ubuntu 11 under Vbox with their Unity Desktop and i got curios and seen that you where able to make it start/work under openSUSE as well and i was just curios to see if the experience is different, that`s why i have created this topic to find out how to fire up Unity as you worked on it. So can you tell me how to do it?
I`m a big fan of KDE desktop but i must admit that i like Gnome 2(2.32 to be precise) and i will miss this version, but Gnome 3 is not that bad either, it just has more “eye-candy” to it .