Hello,

At 14:35 -0700 on 2012-3-29 Alexander Hansen wrote:
 >
 > On 3/29/12 2:08 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote:
 > >
 > > I keep monitoring the 10.7 tree (I have a 10.7 virtual machine for the
 > > purpose) and I keep noticing that no desktop manager (such as Gnome,
 > > KDE, or Xfce) is yet available.  I am therefore wondering whether this
 > > is a matter of issues with those desktop managers or is simply caused
 > > by the fact that nobody has bothered to port them to 10.7.
 > I'm thinking it's probably the former.

Fair enough, thank you.  Should somebody have any idea what are the
issues (so that I can do an informed poking myself to see if I can be
of help) and/or if there is still hope I would appreciate hearing
about it.

 > > In particular the only thing that keeps me still on 10.6 is the
 > > absence of Gnome 2 (preferred) or similar.  I am an old Unix hand and
 > > I feel much more comfortable with sloppy focus and the other goodies
 > > offered by X so I am spending as much time as possible in there.  In
 > > other words, advice on the matter is much appreciated.
 > Check "fink list -s gnome".  The whole desktop isn't available, but at 
 > least some of the components are.

It is half usable indeed, but it still misses quite a bit of
functionality (such as a PDF viewer or a populated menu).  It is also
a bit flaky.

 > > Is this complete?  Should I be aware of anything else?
 > 
 > Nope, you're looking at the full available set of packages.

Good to know, thank you again.

Cheers,
Stefan

-- 
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it 
isn't, it ain't.  That's logic.  --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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