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 No HTML emails and proprietary attachments please <http://bruda.ca/ascii> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
