On 11/28/06, Robert Wohlhueter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
It's a work in progress. I believe that someone is trying to get this all working, but since GNOME (upstream, not just the Fink packages) is an insane tangled mess it's not going quickly. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) Got job? http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/akh_cv/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
