Le 5 déc. 2011 à 15:31, Matthew Robbetts a écrit : > Hi Eric, thanks for the reply! > > On 4 Dec 2011, at 03:20, Eric Wasylishen wrote: > >> Hey Matthew, >> >>> I'm sorry if this is the wrong list for this - is there a users' list >>> instead? >> >> This list is fine :-) >> >>> Anyhow, I'm trying to get Etoile up and running on my Gentoo linux >>> machine. I followed the build instructions from your website build both >>> gnustep and Etoile with clang and everything seemed to work okay. (I >>> would recommend adding a note at the end of: >>> >>> http://etoileos.com/downloads/installtrunk/ >>> >>> regarding running the setup.sh script to finish the install - I don't >>> think that is mentioned anywhere and I only found out about it via >>> google when I didn't know what to do next). >> >> Ok, thanks for the info.
Well, I removed the setup.sh mention from the INSTALL instructions since the script is currently unsupported. >>> Now, my first suspect is that I'm using the open-source radeon drivers >>> (xf86-video-ati) - do any of you know of any incompatibilities bewteen >>> Etoile and these? I just built gnustep-back with the default options, so >>> I think it's using the cairo backend. Cairo is something I've installed >>> through an official gentoo package. I've tried it in both opengl and >>> non-opengl flavours but the effect is the same. >> >>> Does anyone have any idea what might help? I'm not very knowledgeable >>> about UNIX so I'm not sure how to really start debugging this sort of >>> thing. I'd be very grateful for any assistance as Etoile looks very >>> exciting! I love the idea of a polished GNUstep-based desktop system on >>> Linux. >> >> Unfortunately the etoile user stuff (wallpaper, dock, top-of-screen menu, >> etc.) is mostly unmaintained as far as I know. It never really got beyond a >> basic WM + app switcher + menu bar, so you may find using WindowMaker + >> GWorkspace more usable right now (although they could use a lot of polish, >> too.) > > Ahhh, okay. I guess you're all beavering away at the underlying frameworks > and suchlike. Is producing a desktop system (as opposed to an application > development system) still a primary aim and is there a timeline/roadmap? If I > were a more competent programmer I'd love to help out, even if it's just with > porting some of my favourite OSX apps (TeXShop and Theremin, to name two) to > GNUstep. Perhaps I'll find the time one day... Yes, producing a desktop system is still on the roadmap :-) We should have some user-visible stuff to present next year. >> What I would suggest is: >> - try deleting your ~/GNUstep directory, to clear any extensions enabled by >> Etoile's setup.sh script, and see if the graphical problem still occurs in >> GNUstep applications like SystemPreferences, GWorkspace, etc. >> - try installing GNUstep from subversion. There has been quite a big change >> to how windows are drawn since the last release, which might fix the problem >> you are seeing. > > Both GNUstep and Etoile were built from trunk with LLVM/Clang 3.0. The > menubar and AZDock run quite nicely if I start them under WindowMaker on my > system (though there are definitely stability issues in general with GNUstep > apps), so I suspect there's some problem with Azalea just now? Or at least > with my installation of it. > > I'll try deleting things out of ~/GNUstep (though I don't want to delete all > my WindowMaker settings!) I would recommend to avoid Azalea for now. It is unsupported and will soon be removed from Étoilé svn trunk. May be we should even move Azalea to branches/Deprecated now. Any objections? Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
