Hello Yaakov, >> "As with GNOME 2.6, you must define the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment >> variable to the path at which your MIME database is installed, for >> instance <prefix>/share." >> >> Now I thought that things like this need to be handled, and probably >> the best would be to do such initial settings in the startup scripts >> which are starting X / GNOME. >> >> However I'm not an experienced Linux / GNOME user and have no idea >> what else needs to be in such a script. Do I start any of the >> daemons, or is it just enough to start the GNOME window manager? >> >> You get the picture, what I'm really looking for is a package with >> gnome-start-scripts in the style like the X startup-scripts to enable >> the start from the shell (.sh) script and to enable starting from >> explorer (.bat) windows shell via double click without ever opening a >> Cygwin shell. "Cygwin? What is this good for? Wanna run GNOME!"
> Did you look at the BLFS book? From what I can tell, it looks like they > just add "exec metacity" and "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and run > startx. The entries for shared-mime-info and gnome-mime-data don't > mention setting any environment variables. But then again, I've never > tried, so I wouldn't know for sure. I'll try that. > BTW, any luck with libbonobo/GConf/VFS? Can we proceed with the > existing ORBit2 port until we make sure that the changes we're making > are correct? And BTW, I have a number of packages stalled in ITP from > 29 Sept (in 2 emails); apparently once again I've struck on a lack of > interest for these (admittedly not fascinating but) necessary GNOME prereqs. It seems that the changes I made for ORBit werte sufficient to get it to produce non crashing binaries. I need to build some more of the base packages (currently running the vte build), then I'll start testing. I think the idl-compiler njeeds to be patched to produce code for running executables. > I'll be busy now until next week; I'm uprading computers after the > weekend and hope to be up and running sometime Monday or so. I plan to > catch up on everything then ASAP, and in the meantime I hope you manage > to get your packages figured out. We still have a LOT of work to do. I have all my current builds uploaded (including the patched ORBit and also newer libIDL packages): http://194.95.224.180/cygwin/test/ These together with the GNOME packages from your latest two ITP are the GNOME desktop (well, as noted above, there are still some base packages missing). Gerrit -- =^..^=
