For those who don't follow BLFS-dev and intend to use gnome-3, this is a heads-up that hamster-applet is NOT in the book.
The first reason is that the version in Wayne's book *does* build, but it is a development release (gnome applets apparently didn't have a migration path from -2 to -3, and development stopped). BLFS has always used development versions only when necessary - the current pango (ISTR) is development, and I happily use the development series of icewm, but it makes me ask questions. Having looked at this package, which is all python, there are three programs installed, or you can, apparently run it without installing (NB - if that is out of date, it's not the only gnome package where the documentation severely lags behind). As a "build from source, and only what is needed" guy, I loathe trying to get Python stuff to work - 99% of perl modules tell you what you ought to have installed while creating the Makefile, python modules only ever tell you the first module they don't find at runtime. So (a) uninstalled, [ cd src ; ./hamster-applet -w ] tells me it needs (at least) the gnomeapplet module, which was one of the gnome-2 modules we got rid of. (b) hamster-cli needs (at least) pk-gtk. (c) hamster-service needs (at least) pysqlite3. (d) hamster-time-tracker needs (at least) the gconf module. If someone can make this work (and the dependencies to get the modules and their dependencies aren't onerous - I suspect that is a big 'if'), and list which modules / deps, and where to download them (e.g. pysqlite3 didn't show up in my searching), then this package is out of the book. It looks as if development of 'hamster-applet' (in quotes because applets no longer exist in gnome-3), or at least ideas, resumed earlier this month. Probably too late for gnome-3.4, but perhaps it will come back to life in the future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
