Le 12 déc. 2011 à 19:42, Matthew Robbetts a écrit : > Hi Quentin, > > On 7 Dec 2011, at 18:04, Quentin Mathé <qma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Ah, ok - are there some instructions on how to do the things the script does, > like create the relevant .desktop files and suchlike? Or is how to do that > considered 'obvious' for people who are fiddling with experimental desktops?
It isn't considered obvious, it's just that we are a development platform, but not a "desktop environment" not even an experimental one at this point ;-) The script is unsupported because the user-visible stuff is highly broken as explained in the warning at the top of the INSTALL file. If you want to fiddle with Étoilé as a desktop environment, unless you are motivated to contribute some code, I suggest that you wait until we post some news on the blog about the desktop environment status. >>>> 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? > > What's the plan here? We are writing our own window manager, see Services/Private/ProjectManager. But it's not usable yet. > Does Etoile itself not need a custom window manager? It will need a custom one in the long run. But for now, you can run existing applications or examples within GNOME, KDE or some other window manager. > Do you have a favourite to use in its place? You could try WindowMaker or OpenBox. Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
