Ken Moffat wrote: > I think that now is a suitable time to replace > gnome-media with gvolwheel, and to add another lightweight window > manager (icewm).
I have no opinion about this since I do not use Gnome. I do have it on my TODO list to build it and try it out, but I've got a lot of other things at a higher priority. > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/ > > This contains the following changes: > > 1. new page in chapter 2 to explain static/shared libraries : in the > book we now often use --disable-static but I don't think we've > explained why. I like this. Please go ahead and add it to the book. Do you have any problems with me expanding it a bit to explain the differences between a so library, real library, and linker library? > 2. add pointers to some distros in Beyond BLFS, change freshmeat.net > to freecode.com, and add a link to a rpm2cpio script. Basically, > as in last year's suggestion (the change to google/linux is no > longer appropriate, that has become google/webhp and is not linux > specific). That's fine. > 3. add a page about Vulnerabilities at the start of chapter 4. > Reworked from last year's suggestion. I like this page too. Please add it. > 4. add IceWM as another window manager: > > Use the 1.3.7 development release (at the moment nothing is > happening in development, so in some ways it is like mutt). Some > seds are needed to get it to compile with current binutils and > glib-2.32. Almost all of the distros have moved to 1.3 instead of > 'stable' 1.2. I've been using 1.3 for years, and it works very > well for me (there used to be a problem with resizing gtk+-3 windows > in "minority" window managers, that problem is no longer present in > icewm so I guess gtk3 was fixed). > > Configuration, and setting up the menus, are "different" so I've > added explanations and some examples. This looks like a nice addition. A light WM alternative with few dependencies is good to have. > 5. update the name of a kernel config option in alsa-lib > 'Device Drivers -> Sound' is now '-> Sound card support'. > Technically, I could just drop this part in without discussion, but > I only noticed it while preparing the next item, and for me it makes > sense to do them all together. Yes, please do that. > 6. replace gnome-media by gvolwheel: > > I was keen to keep gnome-media for a time, because I'd been used > to using it and assumed other people had used it too. It has been > marked as "will be removed from the book in due course" since 24th > December, I think it can go now - providing we add a replacement. > During this time there have been links to volumecontrol and both > the gtk2 and gtk3 versions of gvolwheel. I didn't like > volumecontrol, and there are reports of people having difficulty > with it, so I propose we use gvolwheel. On my speaker, I have a physical wheel that moves from off to max. A software volume control is OK, but many times there are physical alternatives. I assume that this is a Gnome only utility, but if you think it's appropriate, do it. > Unfortunately, correctly configuring the current version (1.0) and > the kernel will trip people up if they follow the ChangeLog in the > package, so I've added the details. > > The link to sourceforge for gvolwheel is just weird : open it in > a browser and you get a list of all the available versions instead > of the one you asked for. Paste it to wget and it works. I don't > see what else I can do for that, I've tried at least 6 variants > based on what shows in the browser at differnet mirrors, but they > all either gave a 404 or dropped me at the list of available > versions. If you have the source you want, we can always put it on anduin for a reliable source. We already do that for several packages, e.g. OpenJDK, tidy, etc. Actually *all* the sources are there, but we generally don't link directly to them. > I'm open to discussion about the details. If nobody objects, I'll > now regard that as "nobody cares, so do it". I don't object, but I do care. They look like nice additions. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
