Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:30:45AM -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> So, what your saying is that its really hard to get a good GNOME 3 install
> on Mageia and therefor it shouldn't be on the list of distros, correct? I
> get that. Theres a reason we don't list *every* distro on the page
> afterall! Maybe we should come up with a concrete set of 'rules' to be
> listed and then work our way through a list of distros and rule them in or
> out as we go.

Yes, hard if you do not know what should be done. There is no installer
option that actually works (you can select GNOME, but you're not getting
anything near the full GNOME, nor the default theme).

Instructions itself: You have to install "task-gnome" meta-package and
select Adwaita in gnome-tweak-tool. Missing stuff: By default not even
Nautilus is installed. I'm hoping to create another package which does
this for you, but not sure if I can complete it before Mageia version
freeze. Also not totally sure on how to solve it "nicely".

So although you can have an excellent GNOME experience in Mageia, by
default it is far from it. Initially the text on getting-gnome was
minimal, as I failed to get a nice default GNOME experience I was
planning to put the concrete instructions on the getting-gnome page.

-- 
Regards,
Olav