Studio with Cinnamon

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

Assuming I get all the bugs out of this, there is one other 
issue that could make being the mantainer of a metapackage
difficult: the "real names" issue. I looked through the Wiki page
on development concerning PGP keys, etc, and it reminds
people to use their real names. That is something I never do 
online for security reasons, due to my involvement in dissident 
politics and the need to prevent one posting of mine under my 
"legal" name from being used by Google or by law enforcement
to validate another post under the name everyone knows me by.

To maintain the meta I will have to be able to have it credited to 
"Luke" or "Luke from DC," I can't use my "legal" name online for
any purpose. That issue is also one of many reasons I don't have
or want Google or Facebook accounts. 

On 05/27/2013 at 4:07 PM, lukefromdc at hushmail.com wrote:
>
>I installed UbuntuStudio 13.04 to an extra partition, very nice
>job everyone, it looks great by default and it not a whole lot
>different a UI than what I've done with Cinnamon. Theme is 
>different in some ways, but I was still instantly reminded of the
>original 2008 default appearance.
>
>I then began the job of installing Cinnamon, which is now 
>available in
>Ubuntu's repos and installed fine along with the Nemo file manager 
>it
>works with. That part was easy, NOTHING else was.
>
>Here were the issues I ran into:
>
>configuration steps then required:
>
>mkdir ~/.themes
>download "GNOME" black theme (could put into a deb)
>extract to ~/.themes
>
>Switch menu to "start-here.png" in ubuntustudio-icons
>Could be done by overwriting /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/menu.png
>or manually in menu-settings by selecting 
>/usr/share/icons/ubuntustudio/places/24/distributor-logo.png
>
>Looks REAL nice in GNOME theme
>
>I do NOT know how to script the latter, the former would be 
>reverted
>on any update of Cinnamon
>
>
>Set Nemo background to ubuntustudio default:
>
>But tool to set this is BROKEN right now!
>
>Have to drop background in ~/pictures, install
>Nautilus, select it in gnome-control-center, then
>remove (not purge) Nautilus so Nemo will start
>
>Applets added to panel such as workspace-switcher
>must be manually moved to desired position in
>panel-edit more, again I do not know how to 
>automate this.
>
>Worst issues to date: Cinnamon menus not at all like
>current UbuntuStudio menus, do NOT respect 
>UbuntuStudio menu package, current nor prior.
>
>The default theme and other installed themes
>do not render the window borders properly
>in Cinnamon, causing all windows to appear
>as though they were inactive windows.
>
>
>>
>>On 05/23/2013 at 4:39 PM, "Kaj Ailomaa" <zequence at mousike.me> 
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>On Thu, May 23, 2013, at 10:25 PM, lukefromdc at hushmail.com wrote:
>>>> OK, I just pulled the information fom the Wiki. Will take me a 
>>>while
>>>> to get this rolling, for two reasons: Bandwidth issues mean I 
>>>have 
>>>> to go on the road to pull a DVD image, and I first need to 
>>learn 
>>>to
>>>> build my existing code into Debian packages (I use ordinary 
>>>tarballs
>>>> locally at this point).
>>>> 
>>>> I'll start chewing on this, already have a Launchpad account, 
>>>I'll try
>>>> to get a meta setup for 13.10.  Question: Cinnamon is still in 
>>a 
>>>PPA,
>>>> should I use a package to add that PPA to sources.list for the 
>>>build,
>>>> or do something else?
>>>> 
>>>
>>>You don't need to find out how to do the meta by yourself, but 
>>once
>>>you're done setting up a dev environment, I'll let you in on how 
>>>it's
>>>done.
>>>Just let me know when you're ready to begin.
>>>
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