Lubuntu alternative sessions script

[Federico Leoni]

Hi Phill, nice to meet you here too!

I see you resolved the issues with Pastebin, I think you found a good solution.

Back on topic, yes, I like the idea. For now I put the script on
Dev-Host but I didn't put the link on wiki yet.

How do you want to manage updates? I mean if you prefer I send to you
for the upload or if I must upload directly myself.
Do you think is ok to use a script with add others PPAs in your PPA?
I'll probably drop a line to the maintainers of Compton and the Faenza
Icons to inform of the new "project". For now these are the packages I
need.

I'm wandering if is better to create more scripts, one for any new
session type, or a big one for all sessions... What do you think?
Let me know.

F.


2013/7/4 Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>:
> Hi Federico,
>
> if you want some where to host the script whilst you get it into a PPA
> (which is the best place), I can add it to my server which is a mirror for
> the lubuntu (and other) ISOs [1].
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
> http://phillw.net/isos/
>
> On 4 July 2013 14:32, Federico Leoni <effelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for all for the feedback.
>>
>> @Jose Lopez: I tried to so do a session based on the standard lxpanel
>> but there are things that it can't do like mixing launchers with the
>> open windows. If you know an applet that do that,could you gently send
>> me a link?
>> For the same reason I'll use Cairo-Dock for Windows7 session but
>> without shadows and using the dock as a complete panel replacement.
>> Anyway I'll do another session with lxpanel fox XP session without
>> composite manager.
>>
>> @Mr Wislr: The script is generated "by hand" for now.
>>
>> @leszek.lesner: I completely forgot security in this primary stage. I
>> removed the script from the wiki but soon I'll offer it from another
>> host and with md5sum. I also removed -y from apt-get lines.
>>
>> @Nio Wiklund: I didn't compared with the standard foot-print of
>> Xubuntu, all I know for now is Lubuntu-OSX use 2% CPU and 128MB RAM.
>> With a terminal, chrome (with four tabs) and the taskmanager running
>> 33% CPU and 582MB RAM.
>>
>> Any other useful tips?
>>
>> F.
>> F.
>>
>>
>> 2013/7/4  <leszek.lesner at web.de>:
>> > Let me first say its nice that you put some work in it.
>> > But I must warn you here that shipping this kinds of scripts is a
>> > complete security risk.
>> > First of all the script itself uses apt-get -y calls which have the
>> > potential to destroy dependencies delete packages and leave a non working
>> > packagemanager.
>> > Second is the wiki.ubuntu.com site shouldn't be a place for storing
>> > scripts. Instead it should be a place where you show how to transform a
>> > normal Lubuntu look into your lubuntuosx look for example.
>> > If the script gets compromised on the server and a user just executes it
>> > (believe me they do) without looking into it it will be doomsday for a lot
>> > of users. So my advice would be removing the script asap and not making it a
>> > potential harm to the user.
>> > We could discuss maybe to use your configuration in the script as a
>> > seperate package maybe for lubuntu ppa or something (which has signed
>> > packages and so on) . All inall its a nice idea but we really need to be
>> > careful with spreading scripts.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetFederico Leoni schrieb am 04.07.13 04:33:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> >
>> > after a consultation with other members of the list I prepared a
>> > preliminary script based on the sample offered by Jonathan to let users
>> > easily create new sessions in Lubuntu to change the visual of the DE and
>> > have a more "Eye-Candy" desktop for those who have problems to migrate from
>> > other OS.
>> >
>> > I'm aware is not what a linux power user wants but I know many people
>> > asking for that.
>> > The script and a brief explanation is available on Ubuntu Wiki.
>> >
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu%20alternative%20sessions
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I hope you will appreciate the effort.
>> >
>> >
>> > F.
>> >
>> >
>> > Note: English is not my primary language, forgive me if made some
>> > mistakes.
>>
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