Andrew Benton wrote these words on 12/06/05 14:40 CST: > What would be the point? It would be a waste of effort. The patch wouldn't > get used http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638 I'm not > short of things to waste my time on.
First of all, I'd like to say I wish I had said things a bit differently this morning in my reply to you. I reread my comments and discovered my message doesn't read as intended. So, Andy, please accept my apologies. I don't normally proof-read my email messages, nor do I read them again after they come into my inbox. Only because another poster mentioned the tone of the message did I reread it. As to the issue at hand, you raise a very valid point. I must admit I saw your original bug (it was quite a long time ago), and meant to do something about it. As far as updating Fluxbox or XFce, I wouldn't go near that. I don't know anything about them, and am not qualified to even touch those packages. What I had intended to do (but completely got sidetracked) was when I updated GDM was to add a note to the text that describes how to create a .desktop file for the D-BUS GNOME Desktop and further that to include text that says you can create .desktop files for any other window manager or desktop environment in the same manner as the D-BUS .desktop file. I personally don't feel that adding individual package .desktop files for the GDM instructions (such as creating a .desktop file for Fluxbox) is appropriate in the GDM instructions. I *do* however feel that the instructions I put in to create a .desktop file for a D-BUS session startup when starting the *GNOME* environment, is appropriate, however. After all, GDM is GNOME's graphical login manager and providing a mechanism to start GNOME (also starting D-BUS) is appropriate here. I believe it would be overkill to start adding individual .desktop files for other applications. A note saying to use the GNOME/D-BUS file as an example how to create others *would* however be appropriate. Unfortunately, I failed to put that text in. Please understand and have a bit of compassion here as finishing up the GDM instructions meant I was *done* with the GNOME-2.12.1 update, which took me about a month to do. It is an unbelievably hard (and eventually quite boring) undertaking doing the GNOME update. Not only are there about 75 GNOME packages that need to be installed and documented, there are countless other support packages as well. I am always glad when I can see the end of the tunnel in the GNOME updates. So, I hope you understand how I could have forgotten to include the text in the GDM instructions. As far as the rest of your patches sent in, you'll have to hope that there is some Editor that has some interest in FluxBox or XFce and will apply your updates. I simply have no interest in installing either of those packages, which essentially prohibits me from applying your update patches and incrementing the versions in the book. I hope you understand and will consider to still provide your (what has always been, as I previously mentioned) valuable insight and experience to the project. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 15:16:00 up 73 days, 40 min, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.29, 0.86 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
