Mac4Lin - New releases, discussions, comments etc.

[infra_red_dude]

Hi Infra,

The pidgin 'away' is red and 'do not disturb' is amber in RC2 as it was in RC1.

apart from that, it's looking great

Woopsie! Thanks for pointing that out. I've noted it and will fix it

[spandanj]

Thank you I know it still the same gray. Btw, a couple of posts back I explained a user how to change the shade of gray. You may wanna read that and edit the files to your liking

hey,

I can't seem to find that post. Could please send me that link. It would be really useful to make that gray a little lighter, especially on my laptop screen with no brightview or anything.

thanks.

[infra_red_dude]

hey,

I can't seem to find that post. Could please send me that link. It would be really useful to make that gray a little lighter, especially on my laptop screen with no brightview or anything.

thanks.

Here you go: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=513

[thrasher6900]

I'm happy to inform you all that Mac4Lin now uses the SVN version control system. The latest version Mac4Lin v1.0 RC2 is available there. Users may checkout to download the bleeding edge version.

The required info is provided here:

Subversion Server: https://mac4lin.svn.sourceforge.net

Path to Repository: /svnroot/mac4lin

Access instructions:

To access a Subversion repository, configure your Subversion client as follows:

* Hostname: mac4lin.svn.sourceforge.net
* Port: 443
* Protocol: HTTPS
* Repository Path: /svnroot/mac4lin

For clients that use a URL string:

https://mac4lin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mac4lin

Mac4Lin v1.0RC2 has not been released and hence is not available on the Downloads page. It can only be obtained through SVN. Comments, suggestions, complaints are welcome as always

Forgive me for asking, but I'm a noob.

How exactly do you do this SVN thing? Can I get some detailed instructions so I too can try v1.0RC2?

[gjoellee]

I have a good tip for the Mac4Lin project. "Global Menu". Take a look here: http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

[infra_red_dude]

Forgive me for asking, but I'm a noob.

How exactly do you do this SVN thing? Can I get some detailed instructions so I too can try v1.0RC2?

Some links that may help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...r-beginners-1/
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...r-beginners-2/

I have a good tip for the Mac4Lin project. "Global Menu". Take a look here: http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

I do make a mention of Global Menu in the documentation. In fact Mac4Lin has a theme exclusively for people who use Global Menu in the pack. But since I am not the developer I do not bundle it with Mac4Lin.

[thrasher6900]

Some links that may help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...r-beginners-1/
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...r-beginners-2/

I TOTALLY do not understand what to do still.

Could you go into details on what exactly to enter in the terminal to get the update?

I'd appreciate it if you can do so. Even if it's an email.

[infra_red_dude]

I TOTALLY do not understand what to do still.

Could you go into details on what exactly to enter in the terminal to get the update?

I'd appreciate it if you can do so. Even if it's an email.

Sure I will do that

Install subversion on Ubuntu from terminal: sudo apt-get install subversion

You can then run 'svn' to pull the files from the repo: svn checkout https://mac4lin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mac4lin

This will download all the files from SVN to ~/mac4lin folder. Do note that these files are decompressed. So you will need to put the folders in appropriate folders (like the Mac4Lin Icons folder to ~/.icons, the various GTK themes folder in ~/.themes and so on). Or you can compress the folders in .tar.gz and install using Appearances Dialog box as you would install any other UI theme.

Hope that helps

PS: I've blogged about using subversion so that more people can pull down the Mac4Lin v1.0 RC2 file and here. Head here: http://phoenix-ani.blogspot.com/2009...d-install.html

[thrasher6900]

Sure I will do that

Install subversion on Ubuntu from terminal: sudo apt-get install subversion

You can then run 'svn' to pull the files from the repo: svn checkout https://mac4lin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mac4lin

This will download all the files from SVN to ~/mac4lin folder. Do note that these files are decompressed. So you will need to put the folders in appropriate folders (like the Mac4Lin Icons folder to ~/.icons, the various GTK themes folder in ~/.themes and so on). Or you can compress the folders in .tar.gz and install using Appearances Dialog box as you would install any other UI theme.

Hope that helps

PS: I've blogged about using subversion so that more people can pull down the Mac4Lin v1.0 RC2 file and here. Head here: http://phoenix-ani.blogspot.com/2009...d-install.html

Aright that worked. . ....getting it that is.

However I don't know how to install everything. I packagaged it and it was ' invalid theme ' when I went that route.

I don't know what folders to put the new ones at.

My rc1 folder is in my home directory, but that's not where everything is installed.
Do I just transfer everything to the rc1 folder and reinstall?

[infra_red_dude]

No, you just cannot tar up the whole folder. You need to individually tar the GTK theme folders, Icon theme folder and then install via the Appearances dialog. Try it. If it doesn't work then just head to the link on my blog in my previous post. Hopefully you'll be able to install it