Documenting Lubuntu Eye Candy (was: Re: WOW Lubuntu / StartUbuntu )

[Iberê Fernandes]

2013/6/18 Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>

> Iberê,
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Iberê Fernandes wrote:
>
> > Everytime a person come to me an say: Lubuntu is boring, lacks
> > eyecandy... I show my desktop and some desktops from a fellow of
> > Lubuntu Official at Facebook.
>
> > After that, usually the same person changes his mind and starts
> > asking: how can I do that?
>
> Logically, then, you and your fellow Facebook official need to put your
> experience with adding "eye candy" to Lubuntu to good use -- write a few
> wiki pages that teach others "how can I do that?" and provide an Lubuntu
> "Eye Candy PPA" or whatever containing the relevant software, if it is
> not already packaged and in the official repositories.
>
> Turn what you already know into a resource for the community.  I
> confess, I'm not interested in Lubuntu eye candy... but if plenty of
> others are, OK, let's teach them how to "sweeten" their Lubuntu desktops
> as much as they want!
>
> If you want to change things in this regard, a few well-written wiki
> pages and a source of the software would be a good start.
>
> Who knows, if there is really a big demand, maybe later you can create
> an lubuntu-eyecandy package which people can install and automagically
> have all this candy on their Lubuntu machines :)  That could make "eye
> candy acquisition" easier for Lubuntu users than for users of other
> OSes!
> But the way to start is documenting precisely what software to add and
> how to configure it.
>
> Jonathan
> --
>   Jonathan Marsden
>   jmarsden at fastmail.fm
>
>


Jonathan,

I'll start building a wiki right after June 30th to share what is not
documented in a easy/organized way.

Cheers,
Iberê
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