On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:30:49PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:00:42PM +0100, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > > I just found this and thought you people might be interested. > > > > http://mate-desktop.org/ > > [...] > I tried a little of it last week, to see if I could use it to > replace some of gnome-3 on my desktop (note: I only ever built gnome > for a few applications, I can't comment on the whole environment). > > I started by taking a note of: > http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building to see the preferred order, > but in practice I was only looking to replace gucharmap, evince, > gcalctool. I've built the following (all ./autogen.sh > --prefix=/usr) : > (spaces and comments pruned from this list -) > mate-common-1.5.0 > mate-doc-utils-1.5.0 I now know that this needs rarian (i.e. scrollkeeper-config) which I have dropped from my future builds. > libIDL-0.8.14 > mate-corba-1.4.0 > mate-conf-1.4.0 > mate-icon-theme-1.5.0 > mate-desktop-1.5.3 - needs --sysconfdir=/etc and --disable-static. > libmatekeyring-1.5.0 with --disable-static. > mate-document-viewer-1.5.0 : needs --disable-caja [ the nautilus > mate-calc-1.5.0
Perhaps I should add a further comment - I've now dropped all of these :) One of the base packages, perhaps mate-corba, needed other deps which I had dropped - probably p11-kit among others, but the output from ./autogen.sh is not pleasant for those of us who don't want to build everything. In the end, the document viewer doesn't need it (I had included it for the b0rken character map), and I've dropped the calculator in favour of galculator. I still needed gucharmap from gnome-3.6, and in the end I've gone back to evince-3.6 which still works well and for the moment gives me a warm feeling. What I _have_ done is drop yelp (so, no help in gucharmap or evince but I think I can manage without :), totem (using parole for the moment - it won't play .webm files but otherwise seems ok), replace abiword and gnumeric by libreoffice and along the way I've got rid of: gtk-doc, gobject-introspection (so, I no longer build gir in gudev), goffice, rarian, aspell, enchant, fribidi, wv, gnome-icon-theme-extras, libgnome-keyring, p11-kit, libtasn1, nettle, gnutls, gnme-themes-standard, glib-networking, libsoup, gvfs, geoclue, webkit-gtk, gnome-doc-utils, gnome-desktop, libnotify, yelp, epiphany*, gcalctool, gmime, gogl, json-glib, clutter*, totem*, mx, libpeas. And I've replaced epiphany by arora and a fuller build of qt : it doesn't have the same functionality, but it is adequate for my second browser (e.g. for google mail, pretending to be safari). Please note that the book's recommended gnome deps are correct - I've had to add various configure switches to get things to build without them, but it's no big deal. I'll note that I had hoped to drop GConf3, but gnash requires it. I've still got issues trying to get transcode working fully, not helped by apparently losing some past notes, but that isn't a priority (working out what my fonts cover is *much* more interesting ;). So, apart from gucharmap and evince I can happily say goodbye to gnome. I'll miss gnumeric, but calc seems better. Writer is definitely better than abiword. As to mate, which started this - for the moment it seems to be limited to people who want to build a full version of it, and the help is not yet present. 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
