Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
> > 2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques
> > > <nmo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I
> > >> will mail
> > >> tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list.
> > >
> > > Let's get an accurate picture of what is actually left for vendor
> > > patches before we decide the current situation is a non-starter.
> > > And
> > > then try to categorize them as critical or not. End of the day, a
> > > compromise will most likely have to be made with some
> > > non-critical
> > > patches not being included, with Fedora's version of Unity being
> > > less
> > > capable than Ubuntu's Unity desktop until the patches can be
> > > refactored in a way that they are upstreamable.  I'm willing to
> > > help
> > > where I can with any changes that lead to submittable packages.
> > 
> > I'm not involved in this project anyway; If this is going forward,
> > I
> > don't mind co-maintaining a few packages, I would prefer the
> > indicator
> > stack as it's the components I know better. Either way my
> > interventions were not meant to promote this initiative or to bash
> > it.
> > I've only tried to share a few issues I found in the past, though
> > I'm
> > willing to help co-maintaining a 'few' packages, not the whole
> > stack,
> > I don't have time for it.
> 
> Note for the record - I'm perfectly willing to give up my
> maintainership
> of the few packages I own from my old abortive effort to package
> Unity.
> I have bamf, libindicator and probably one or two others I forgot
> about.
> If anyone wants these, just ping me.

Same here, even the QML port is dead I still own a few of -qt
wrappers for bamf etc. I gave up the packaging effort when Unity-2d
started to use a common library for both implementations.

The most interesting part - the QML based desktop is over, so 
waiting for Plasma 2 :)

R. 

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