Is GNOME a possibility?

[lmello]

Just wondering, maybe the folks from GNOME SlackBuild could lend us a hand...?

[lmello]

The point is that there is no need for a separate gnome-doc-utils package.

Well, I'm building it anyway, as linuxdoc-tools doesn't belong even in the 'full' Salix installation.

[lmello]

I was compiling all those packages, in a certain moment - I believe it was when gnome-settings-daemon got installed - all desktop icons disappeared! GDM couldn't recognize the themed display, and every icon was substituted by the 'not found' one.

I removed the package but the icons were still missing.

[fdeak]

I was compiling all those packages, in a certain moment - I believe it was when gnome-settings-daemon got installed - all desktop icons disappeared! GDM couldn't recognize the themed display, and every icon was substituted by the 'not found' one.

I removed the package but the icons were still missing.

You can try this from the gnomeslackbuilds' CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT file:

- Where did my icons go? GNOME 2.30 menus and buttons have been standardised
across all applications to not display icons by default. Menu items with
dynamic objects, including applications, files or bookmarks, and devices are
the exception and can display an icon. GNOME 2.30 has removed the 'Interface'
tab from the Appearances applet. To re-enable your menu icons, you will need
to run:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type boolean \
/desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true

If you would like icons restored to your buttons (like OK, Cancel, etc), then you'll need to run:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type boolean \
/desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true

(Thanks to byteframe for the suggestion.)

fdeak

[lmello]

Now I can't even boot the virtual machine from the virtual HD!

This message appears:

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FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.

In fact, when I put a Salix disk to boot the system, cfdisk shows an empty HD table!

I'm afraid to lose all the work I've done...

edit - it appears that VirtualBox somehow spoofed my system. I reinstalled Salix (without formatting my disk, of course) but I wrote the partition table again.

The icons and menus appear as they should.

Now what could've happened...?


edit2 - the icons disappeared again when I installed nautilus.

edit3 - passing "--disable-update-mimedb" to the configure script makes things alright

[lmello]

There you go:



I just couldn't build gnome-applets, but the most "basic" ones are included in gnome-panel, I think.

edit - this errors occurs:

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xsltproc -o stickynotes_applet-ca.omf --stringparam db2omf.basename stickynotes_applet --stringparam db2omf.format 'docbook' --stringparam db2omf.dtd "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" --stringparam db2omf.lang ca --stringparam db2omf.omf_dir "/usr/share/omf" --stringparam db2omf.help_dir "/usr/share/gnome/help" --stringparam db2omf.omf_in "/home/lmello/Work/pkg-Salix/gnome/gnome-applets/src/gnome-applets-2.32.0/stickynotes/docs/stickynotes_applet.omf.in"  `/usr/bin/pkg-config --variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils` ca/stickynotes_applet.xml || { rm -f "stickynotes_applet-ca.omf"; exit 1; }
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbpoolx.mod:632: parser warning : PEReference: %notation.class; not found
	%local.graphics.attrib;"
	                        ^
Entity: line 1: parser error : NmToken expected in ATTLIST enumeration
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
Entity: line 4: 
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		 ^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Content error in the external subset
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
Entity: line 4: 
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		 ^
validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		 ^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Content error in the external subset
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
Entity: line 4: 
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		    ^
validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		    ^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Content error in the external subset
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
Entity: line 4: 
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		       ^
validity error : All markup of the conditional section is not in the same entity
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		       ^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Content error in the external subset
 %graphics.attrib; 
                  ^
Entity: line 4: 
	format		() #IMPLIED
	      		          ^
unable to parse ca/stickynotes_applet.xml
make[3]: *** [stickynotes_applet-ca.omf] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lmello/Work/pkg-Salix/gnome/gnome-applets/src/gnome-applets-2.32.0/stickynotes/docs'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lmello/Work/pkg-Salix/gnome/gnome-applets/src/gnome-applets-2.32.0/stickynotes'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lmello/Work/pkg-Salix/gnome/gnome-applets/src/gnome-applets-2.32.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
build() failed.

edit2 - I've managed to 'manually' build the package, going to the /src/gnome-applets-2.32.0 and issuing the 'make' command every time an error like this appeared.

[fdeak]

OK, Where we can find the packages?

While I really like xfce, my problem with it, that it has only 3-4 developers
working in their spare-time, it is evolving really slowly, while
gnome has a strong background.

In my opinion an almost minimal gnome desktop is almost equals to a
full featured xfce desktop.

Lot of "gnome-loving" slackware users (at least me) would love a distro like salix, if it
had a gnome destop with bug-fix and security support like salix has.
(I think that gnomeslackbuild does not fulfill these parameters
salix+gnome+slackware could be far better than slackware+gnomeslackbuild)

fdeak

[lmello]

The packages can be found here:
http://people.salixos.org/lmello/pkg/gnome/

You'll also need rarian and upower.

The only thing GNOME loses to XFCE is its compositor: you only get shadows and nothing more.

Maybe a Salix GNOME would package compiz just like the folks at gsb did: recompile it to enable gtk, and then offer more compiz-related packages.

[lmello]

Now for the additional packages:

* Libraries
evolution-data-server-1.10.3 !
gnome-audio-2.0.0
gtkhtml-3.14.3 !
gtksourceview-1.8.5
libgnomecups-0.2.2 !
libgnomeprint-2.18.0 !
libgnomeprintui-2.18.0 !
system-tools-backends-1.4.2
* Utilities
bug-buddy-2.18.1
ekiga-2.0.9 !
eog-2.18.2
epiphany-2.18.3 !
evolution
evince-0.8.3 !
file-roller-2.18.4 !
gcalctool-5.9.14
gconf-editor-2.18.0
gdm-2.18.3 !
gedit-2.18.2
gnome-games-2.18.2.1 !
gnome-keyring-manager-2.18.0
gnome-media-2.18.0 !
gnome-mount-0.6 !
gnome-netstatus-2.12.1
gnome-screensaver-2.18.2 X
gnome-system-monitor-2.18.2
gnome-utilities-2.18.1
gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0
gucharmap-1.10.0 !
nautilus-cd-burner-2.18.2
sound-juicer-2.16.4 [1]
totem-2.18.2
zenity-2.18.2 !
* Accessibility
at-spi-1.18.1
gnome-magnifier-0.14.6
gnome-speech-0.4.16
gok-1.2.5
java-access-bridge-1.18.0
libgail-gnome-1.18.0
orca-2.18.1

X - Xscreensaver is much, much better
[1] If rythmbox is not going to be part of Salix GNOME, then Asunder does the job.

ps: ptwak/gapan, could you take care of these? I'm a little busy right now.

edit - I'm having a little problem with the 'Places' Tab - whenever I want to launch the "upper" part of the menu ('Home Folder', 'Desktop' and 'Bookmarks') instead of opening Nautilus an error popup shows telling that "No application is registered as handling this file". So, how can I register it?

[fdeak]

I've run it a few minutes, basically it seems to work. I will test it in the evening.