Re: Getting GNOME page on gnome.org

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

I think the reasoning for including Ubuntu on the page is two fold:

1) Its a very popular distro, and lots of people want to know how to get GNOME 3 on it

2) Its quite easy to get a good GNOME 3 install on Ubuntu - simply add the ppa and install (or in the case of the getting gnome page, just click :)

On a side note, I think there should be a link to the 'getting gnome' page on the home page (gnome.org) without having to click through to GNOME 3, and then scroll/read all the way down through to 'find out how to get gnome 3' - if I want GNOME 3, I'd rather not have to load and read through mutliple pages just to be told how to get it. Currently, its slightly buried and hard to find, especially if you don't really know what your looking for.

Emily

(ps, sorry about getting this twice Akshay - I forgot to hit reply all the first time :p)

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Akshay Vyas <akshayvyas29 gmail com> wrote:

HI Allan Day

I think you are right but still there is one thing confusing me that
is adding ubuntu
because ubuntu is not using GNOME3 completely they aren't giving GNOME3 in
their default distribution not even in ubuntu 12.04 ,as far as i know
there is a package
which an ubuntu user can install to get the GNOME look (an additional package)
so i completely disagree on adding ubuntu because i have never seen
any GNOME thing after UBUNT10.10 like its written on fedora download
page and on opensuse also that their default distribution is GNOME and
i never see UBUNTU mentioned this after 10.10 so i request you to
please confirm about ubuntu

Regards
Akshay

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> 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.
>
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