Randy McMurchy wrote:
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 agree. I do like the functionality the .desktop files add and I think details about how to create them would be useful on the pages for the particular packages (Fluxbox, Xfce). It just makes it nice and easy to switch between them. Using ~/.xinitrc seems a bit clunky to me.
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.
I can imagine. It's a lot of work. I'd like to help. I update my Gnome buildscript every month or two with whatever are the latest versions in http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ and just doing that (browsing the site and altering the script) takes a couple of hours.
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.
No worries. I just did it as a test to see if it was worth sending in patches to the book. I like Fluxbox. I use it as my default desktop because it and the ROX-filer are fast. I still install Gnome because the family use it and I use several Gnome apps (gnome-terminal, gedit, file-roller)
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.
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