On Mon, May 27, 2013 1:07 pm, lukefro...@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 think that is part of why it was chosen.
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.
:) Welcome to the world of developing!
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
Can't do that for a distro... And you don't want to either :) You want to
have a theme package and install it. It should end up in /usr somewhere.
Then it needs to be selected in the default settings... or at least
selectable.
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
Probably should be doable from a subdirectory of /etc/xdg Probably
/etc/xdg/cinnamonstudio
I haven't thought of it before but we may be able to set it using a:
Directoryapplications.directory/Directory
Line in the menu file.
Looks REAL nice in GNOME theme
Good to here.
I do NOT know how to script the latter, the former would be reverted
on any update of Cinnamon
Needs to be set in the system defaults in /etc/xdg It should survive
updating cinnamon just fine there.
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
Not there, Somewhere in /usr/share/ubuntustudio/ would be the place... in
fact it should be moved there for all the DEs... hint it is not there
right now :P
One of the things we need to do is to take our settings, themes, artwork
and icons and set them up in such a way that they make sense to any DE...
or at least any of the DEs we support. Right now the wallpapers are in
/usr/share/xfce4/backdrops
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.
More /etc/xdg/cinnamonstudio stuff.
What does ls /etc/xdg look like right now after adding cinnamon to studio?
Worst issues to date: Cinnamon menus not at all like
current UbuntuStudio menus, do NOT respect
UbuntuStudio menu package, current nor prior.
The ubuntustudio menu just now is specific to xfce. I am not familiar
enough with the old -menus to comment on those (we are not using them, but
will be), though I think they are not much changed right now. The question
may be if cinnamon is xdg compliant, or if it has the hooks installed in
their main menu to merge other menus. Does the wine menu show? (US
installs wine in the 32bit version) Wine drops a menu stub in the default
place for menu merge files
I am working right now on making the menu DE agnostic. I can get my
private version to work with either xfce or KDE at the moment. There is
still a lot of work to be done though, I don't have all *.desktop or
*.directory files set up yet (though the directory files are pretty much
done) and the icon theme needs some switching around of where the files go
in the icon file tree. Your older ubuntustudio icon theme could be added
to the US icon theme file as studio-classic and selected as default for
cinnamonstudio.
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.
I am not sure what to do about that... another theme that does work could
be substituted as part of the cinnamon package and set that as default for
that DE.
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Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
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