10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-gnomeHelping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto mor...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 8, 2008 8:25 pm | |
| Michael Johnson | Jun 9, 2008 2:35 am | |
| Alexander Leidinger | Jun 9, 2008 10:10 am | |
| Sam Fourman Jr. | Jun 9, 2008 8:50 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 9, 2008 10:06 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 12:15 am | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 12:17 am | |
| Alexander Leidinger | Jun 10, 2008 10:02 am | |
| Kris Moore | Jun 10, 2008 11:49 am | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 8:11 pm |
| Subject: | Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops | |
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| From: | Alexander Leidinger (Alex...@Leidinger.net) | |
| Date: | Jun 10, 2008 10:02:41 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-gnome | |
Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <mar...@freebsd.org> (from Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:16:06 -0400):
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting Michael Johnson <ah...@freebsd.org> (from Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:35:35 -0500):
I guess we should come up with a list of things we want in the 'easy GNOME setup port'. I suggest we start a wiki/todo page so others can add their ideas/plans.
Good idea.
What we would need (IMHO): - .desktop files for stuff which hasn't one (back in the 2.6 days, I started a port for this, see http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/misc-desktop-files-2.6.1.tar.bz2 for some rudimentary stuff)
itetcu was also looking at creating entries by default for ports. I wrote a program for him to extract PNG images from arbitrary executables, so something may come from this. I do agree having additional desktop files for common GNOMEish apps (e.g. Wireshark) would be nice.
Why limiting this to gnomeish apps? Do you expect that GNOME users only use gnomeish apps and KDE users only kdeish ones without having a look at other stuff (TCL/python/perl/SDL/whatever)? For example I don't mind having a desktop file for acroread.
- optional automatic config of the system (adding rc.conf stuff, maybe usermount sysctl stuff, ...)
This is easy as we can adopt some of the niceties done by PC-BSD (e.g. default PolicyKit.conf, devfs config, sysctls, etc.).
Do you have pointers?
Bye, Alexander.
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