On 11/06/2013 08:58 AM, Nick Warne wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote, On 06/11/13 16:53: >> Le 06/11/2013 15:28, Roelof Wobben a �crit : >> > And I have build it on top of dropline gnome so I do not know if for >> all the dependencies >> > there are slackbuilds. >> >> Roelof, >> >> If I may drop in my two cents. On a difficulty scale from 1 to 10 for >> building Slackware packages, Cinnamon is roughly somewhere between 9.5 >> and 10 (if not 27.5 :oD). This is far from being a trivial task. >> >> As far as I'm concerned, I've built complete desktops like Xfce (3.x, >> 4.x), GNOME 2.x and KDE 4.x from source, and I'm wading every day >> through shitloads of SlackBuild scripts. And I simply cringe at the task >> of adapting Cinnamon for Slackware. >> >> Take this as an advice not to spoil too many sunny afternoons. If I >> wanted to use Cinnamon, I'd simply install Linux Mint and be happy >> with it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Niki >> > > And to stick my oar in, I agree with Niki - one reason I use Slack is so > that I can have a fast machine to do the usual stuff quickly, not for > eye candy gymnastics. > > But having said that, maybe some users of Slack would like it, so don't > give up if this is what you want. But only others interested in using > it would be able to help to debug. > > Nick >
Same here. If a WM/DE doesn't ship with Slackware, the hell with it. There's too much else I need to get done on my box. That said...everybody needs a hobby.... -Ed _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
