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    plexus
    deepin
    2012-05-28 08:34
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    Hi,
    I am just impressed with the good job made with deepin gnome-shell destktop, and that job is certainly what a lot of people were looking for and seem a much better approach than "cinnamon" or "mate".
    So this desktop, is it a fork or a set of gnome-shell extension ?
    I mean is it possible to install it on a ubuntu 12.04 ? (it seems difficult to me to use plainly deepin because of lack of translation (french))
    Did you plan to let this gnome-deepin fully installable on other linux distribution? That could very wonderfull to a lot of people.
    So if it is possible, how to install on a ubuntu 12.04 ? (ppa ? regular ?)

    I really hope you could devellop and spread this gnome-deepin (stand-alone fork or set of extension, or both) as people could install it instead of gnome-shell.
    Thanks for the job done that show the way for a better gnome experience.
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    a287740928
    deepin
    2012-05-28 16:20
    #1
    First, it is a GNOME Shell environment and it can be installed on ubuntu 12.04 .It is announced on ld blog .Address is http://planet.linuxdeepin.com/20 ... hell-3-4-in-ubuntu/  If you cannot understand chinese ,it is steps :
    #1.Go to http://ubuntuone.com/5xhdADBsYAKclYcc5XclB5to download script
    #2.Then open terminal
    1. chmod +x install-deepin-gnome-shell.sh
    2. ./install-deepin-gnome-shell.sh
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    These are my private view above, not official reply.
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    plexus
    deepin
    2012-05-29 05:55
    #2
    Thanks a lot.
    i 'll try
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    a287740928
    deepin
    2012-05-30 18:41
    #3
    my pleasure，enjoy it
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    plexus
    deepin
    2012-07-09 09:46
    #4
    Hi,
    I have try but don't success to install.
    have failure messages with fals repository.
    Is there a ppa or a .deb for deepin-gnome-shell ?
    thanks for help
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    lovesnow
    deepin
    2012-07-09 13:09
    #5
    Hi,
    I have try but don't success to install.
    have failure messages with fals repository.
    Is there a ppa or a .deb for deepin-gnome-shell ?
    thanks for help

    here http://packages.linuxdeepin.com/deepin/ ... ome-shell/
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    plexus
    deepin
    2012-07-17 10:20
    #6
    Thanx,
    i hope i 'll get of this and see what can i do with
    thanx
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    tuhaihe
    deepin
    2012-07-17 17:41
    #7
    you can visit http://packages.linuxdeepin.com/deepin/ ... ome-shell/ and download the deepin-gnome-shell package to install Deepin gnome shell on your Ubuntu 12.04.

    TRY at your OWN RISK.
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    plexus
    deepin
    2012-07-20 11:05
    #8
    Hi,
    it seems that's it works fine.
    I dl the .deb on the link you gave then in terminal (at right directory) :
    sudo dpkg -i *.deb
    and it has been installed properly.

    2 questions and 1 remark :
    what is the need of "deepin-gnome-shell_3.4.1.orig.tar.gz" ?
    How to change color of the theme ? (i would like to change the color of the policy in the top bar because of transparency i cannot see the white policy)

    and then the remarks:
    By the way i used, deepin-gnome-shell has been installed on top of my previous gnome-shell. Could it not be a good idea that deepin-gnome-shell become a stand-alone fork of gnome that could be installed closed-by the original gnome-shell instead of on top of GS ? can't you made it totally separate from the original GS with his own ppa or .deb ?

    Thanks for the job, it's look great.
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    tuhaihe
    deepin
    2012-07-24 17:55
    #9
    1. You don't have to download the tarball of "deepin-gnome-shell_3.4.1.orig.tar.gz" . That's the source tarball. If you're are able to install deepin-gnome-shell from source code, that's your need.

    2. you can search and download other deepin gnome-shell theme from http://www.deviantart.com/ to alternate the current gnome shell.

    Or, you must modify the code in /usr/share/theme/Deepin/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

    Input the following code in terminal:
    1. sudo gedit /usr/share/theme/Deepin/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css
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    Then press Ctrl+F to search "anel".

    You will see part of content like this:
    1. #panel {
    2.         border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
    3.         background-gradient-direction: vertical;
    4.         background-gradient-start: rgba(227,227,227,0.6);
    5.         background-gradient-end: rgba(227,227,227,0.09);
    6.         color: rgba(255,255,255,0.98);
    7.         border-top: 0px;
    8.         border-left: 0px;
    9.         border-right: 0px;
    10.         height: 32px;
    11.         box-shadow:  inset 0px -1px 0px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
    12.         font-size: 8.7pt;
    13. }
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    Just change the color: rgba(255,255,255,0.98); use the color you like.

    That maybe help you.

    3. Yeah, what your suggested just is one of our next goal - to creat a great standalone Display session.


    Thanks for your feedback again. Hope help you.
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