Lubuntu alternative sessions script

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Jonathan,

thanks, You know more about this stuff than I do! I've tidied up the wiki
page [1] a little, so it is more in line with usual formatting. I've got
the scripts installed but get different md5sums to what Federico gets on
both methods I used to transfer them to the phillw.net system[2]. Add to
that the massive difference in size of what the two methods made in file
size. I need Federico to check out which, if any, are correct.

Once the script on the server is verified as okay, I'll add it to the wiki
page and get it moved and linked to fully. And.... yes, it will have a full
header... just still deciding if it is a 'dev' project or a 'community doc'
project to choose the header and where it should live.

If you have thoughts on which area it belongs in, I'm more than happy to go
with your suggestion... It's one of those 'neither one, nor the other'...
My gut feel is for it to be in the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ area,
as it is a W-I-P.

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu%20alternative%20sessions
2. http://phillw.net/lubuntu-sessions/

On 4 July 2013 21:46, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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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