Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello, > > There are quite a few packages that I use every day that are not in > BLFS. I think it's a shame that they're not in the book so I've started > to knock up example pages that show what a BLFS page might look like > for them. The first 4 are: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/vte2_90.html > > This is the gkt+-3 version of vte that's already in the book. It can be > installed in parallel with vte-0.28 as it adds 2_90 to the ends of the > names of everything it installs. This will have to go into the book > when Gnome 3 is added. I've written a page for it as it's used by > Roxterm: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/roxterm.html > > Roxterm is basically gnome terminal without the need to install Gnome. > What's not to like?
Well if you could get konsole to work without kde... > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/openbox.html > > Openbox is a lightweight window manager, much like Fluxbox. I like it > 'cos I can launch all the programs I use from the right click menu > which is configured with a simple xml file in ~/config/openbox > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/rox-filer.html > > Rox is a simple, lightweight gtk+-2 file browser. > > Give them a try. I think they all deserve to be added to the book. Perhaps they should be in the book, but I'd like to put our emphasis on updating what's in the book right now. There are also things that we may want to remove, e.g. qt3/kde3 but I need to investigate kde4 more first. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
