On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:22:45 +1300 Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:51 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Roxterm is basically gnome terminal without the need to install Gnome. > > What's not to like? > > According to my notes, Gnome Terminal (as of 3.0.1) depends on GTK+3 and > VTE (same as Roxterm), plus GConf and gsettings-desktop-schemas. That's > somewhat short of "need to install Gnome", particularly since the GConf > dependency will be gone soon. Surely we don't need another terminal > client in BLFS, just to avoid a single trivial dependency? Gconf depends on Orbit and polkit, it's not a trivial dependency. However, the dependencies needed to install gnome-terminal do not produce a working application: andy@doughnut:~$ gnome-terminal GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications. ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL) Aborted I am not going to explore how much more of the whole of Gnome I need to install to get the thing working. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
