With OS 10.4/intel and Apple X11 package, I've installed bundle-gnome, gconf2, gconf2-dev, gconf2-shlibs, etc, and am able to start a gnome desktop in rooted mode, and run various gnome apps under it. All told, I seem to have a fairly functional gnome desktop on my MacBookPro.
But something is dreadfully wrong or missing in the gconf2 preferences database system. Gross symptoms: 1) the main-menu drop-down from top menu bar has no entries at all under the "applications" submenu; 2) the actions-menu | run application window offers to "show list of known applications" - it's empty. 3) The frequent instructions in the Gnome Users Guide referring to use of the "Menus & Toolbars preference tool" are confounded by the absence of any such tool that I can mouse up or start from a command line. Prime suspects: Gnome (2.14) Desktop Administration Guide, chap. 2 goes through procedures for manually editing menu definition files, all of which assume a context that there is an XDG_CONFIG_DIRS tree containing definitions files like 'menus/applications.menu'. My installation does not have any "xdg" directory (neither under /sw nor /etc), nor any files with names like 'applications.menu. There does exist under /sw/gconf subdirs 'gconf.xml.defaults', gconf.xml.mandatory', and 'schemas', and under /sw/gconf/2 a 'path' subdir. (I've tried setting the XDG_CONFIGS_DIRS variable to point to these, with no success. And my HOME/.gconf dir is empty.) The gconfd-2 daemon is running in the process table (with parameter '13', whatever that means. Remedies: The notion of generating a set of *.menu files from scratch seems daunting. Surely, there is a default set that comes along with some of the gnome or gconf packages. Moreover, it seems implied also that, as one installs new applications via fink, that sane entries for them ought to be registered in the "xdg" database, and show up in the "list of known applications." Sorry to be so long winded; this is not a single glitch, but a fundamental flaw in the way I've installed gnome. Hints anyone? Bob Wohlhueter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
