Lubuntu alternative sessions script
Jonathan Marsden
jmarsden at fastmail.fm
Thu Jul 4 20:46:35 UTC 2013
On 07/04/2013 09:29 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 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].
Um. PPAs host *packages*. Not scripts.
When this work is refined far enough that it makes sense to create a
package or set of packages that add additional session types and pull in
the packages with their required icons, backgrounds, compositors, etc
etc -- *then* thinking about a PPA makes sense.
For now, I'd just keep everything related to these "pretty GUIs for
Lubuntu" on one wiki page, so it is in one known place.
BTW, while Julien is 100% right that you can add new session types by
adding a config file, you can't add additional PPAs and pull in
additional icons etc. that way. So, my sense is that for now, until the
community has a few of these pretty GUIs to look at and play with, and
settles on some subset of them as being worthy of including in a future
release, a short script is a useful way to encapsulate everything that
is needed to get a specific "pretty GUI" installed in one place in an
easy to use way.
Someone (sorry, I'm back after a significant medical procedure, and I
can't remember who it was, I am catching up on so much email too fast!)
said they had a way to get the dock effect without needing a
compositor... would that person *please* work with Federico and create a
version of the script that demonstrates this approach?
This is exactly the kind of "all those interested in pretty GUIs working
together" approach I had hoped would come out of Federico's initial
work. Don't let it stop here. Build on it, improve it, tweak it,
polish it... so that by the time we include it (assuming we eventually
will), it is the best it can be :)
Jonathan
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