Why not try enlightenment foundation libraries? A lot fewer packages, and easier to use.
Cheers, Ryan On Feb 4, 2011 10:12 PM, "George McCollister" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've written rules for quite a few gnome packages. I haven't shared them with anyone yet because they've only been tested on one platform and I didn't figure anyone would want them. > > I wanted to avoid gnome at all costs but I found myself in difficult situation. We are significantly upgrading our automation system hardware platform from an XScale to an Atom. We've fielded may requests to add a secure local operator console (centralized two factor authentication) on the normally headless box. The embedded system serves up the operator interface on https and it is usually managed off site via a web browser over a private network or locally from a hardened PC. The new system would need to support optional display, keyboard and mouse and provide a web browser. > > To avoid gnome and kde I opted to use xfce for a desktop environment. I added workspace rules for xfce, webkitgtk+ and the Midori webbrowser. To my disappoint I found that xfce doesn't include a display manager. Finding that xdm was unsuitable I started to look at SLiM (http://slim.berlios.de) I couldn't find distros that were actively using it. I noticed that even most of the xfce distros used gdm. So, I threw up my hands and decided to create ptxdist rules for gdm. I under estimated how many supporting packages would be required to use gdm however I figured that since our new hardware platform had cheap NAND storage to spare, I may as well finish what I started (I could always elect to dump it for something else). > > So anyway... I got gdm working and added a large number of gnome packages in the process. I think quite a lot of work would still need to be done to get all of this to the quality level required to add in to ptxdist. Even if the quality level was sufficient it might add too much of a maintenance burden to be accepted. > > If you or anyone else would like to experiment with what I have, let me know. I'm often in irc. Below is a listing of my package repository to give you an idea of which packages I've added and of their size. Note that I have quite a few additional large packages installed such as Pidgin, full vim, wireshark with GUI which are just for testing and development purposes. I'm actually running ptxdist on my laptop now to get some testing in! So far I'm VERY happy with gdm, xfce and Midori. > > Regards, > George McCollister > > 4.0K alarmsounds_1.0-1_i386.ipk > 280K alsa-lib_1.0.23-1_i386.ipk > 144K alsa-utils_1.0.22-1_i386.ipk > 480K apache2_2.2.17-4_i386.ipk > 40K atk_1.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 68K audiofile_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk > 320K bash_3.2.48-1_i386.ipk > 216K busybox_1.17.1-3_i386.ipk > 32K bzip2_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk > 236K cairo_1.8.10-1_i386.ipk > 28K c-ares_1.7.0-1_i386.ipk > 96K consolekit_0.4.1-1_i386.ipk > 16K cracklib_2.8.18-1_i386.ipk > 48K cyrus-sasl_2.1.23-1_i386.ipk > 300K dbus_1.4.0-1_i386.ipk > 60K dbus-glib_0.88-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K devicekit_002-1_i386.ipk > 80K devicekit-power_008-1_i386.ipk > 196K dhcp_4.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 188K e2fsprogs_1.41.12-1_i386.ipk > 100K eggdbus_0.6-1_i386.ipk > 152K enchant_1.6.0-1_i386.ipk > 24K esound_0.2.41-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K eventlog_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk > 396K evince_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 196K exo_0.3.107-3_i386.ipk > 68K expat_2.0.1-1_i386.ipk > 168K faad2_2.7-1_i386.ipk > 24K 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816K gst-plugins-good_0.10.23-3_i386.ipk > 408K gstreamer_0.10.29-1_i386.ipk > 2.0M gtk_2.18.7-1_i386.ipk > 36K gtk2-engines_2.2.0-1_i386.ipk > 44K gtk-engine-experience_0.10.5-1_i386.ipk > 28K gtk-xfce-engine_2.6.0-1_i386.ipk > 20K hexedit_1.2.12-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K hicolor-icon-theme_0.12-1_i386.ipk > 6.5M icu4c_4.3.4-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K idsh_0.1-1_i386.ipk > 156K initng_0.6.10.2-1_i386.ipk > 44K initng-ifiles_0.1.3-3_i386.ipk > 88K ipkg_0.99.163-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K iproute2_2.6.34-1_i386.ipk > 204K iptables_1.4.8-1_i386.ipk > 156K iso-codes_3.10.3-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K jplayer_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 24K jquery_1.3.2.min-1_i386.ipk > 3.3M kernel_2.6.33.7-3_i386.ipk > 18M kernel-modules_2.6.33.7-3_i386.ipk > 476K krb5_1.7-1_i386.ipk > 124K ldb_0.9.10-1_i386.ipk > 116K libarchive_2.8.4-1_i386.ipk > 56K libart-lgpl_2.3.21-1_i386.ipk > 28K libassuan_2.0.0-1_i386.ipk > 164K libbonobo_2.24.3-1_i386.ipk > 172K libbonoboui_2.24.4-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K libcanberra_0.11-1_i386.ipk > 124K 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36K xorg-lib-xpm_3.5.9-1_i386.ipk > 16K xorg-lib-xrandr_1.3.1-1_i386.ipk > 16K xorg-lib-xrender_0.9.6-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K xorg-lib-xres_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xscrnsaver_1.2.1-1_i386.ipk > 168K xorg-lib-xt_1.0.9-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xv_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk > 12K xorg-lib-xvmc_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xxf86vm_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 1.4M xorg-server_1.9.3-3_i386.ipk > 1.2M xpsb_0.1.0-1_i386.ipk > 144K xterm_267-1_i386.ipk > 236K yui_2.5.2r2-1_i386.ipk > 48K zlib_1.2.5-1_i386.ipk > > > > On 01/31/2011 02:37 AM, Robert Schwebel wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:13:15AM +0530, vijay singh wrote: >> >>> >>> Can any one tell me which ptxdist version have Gnome package available >>> >> >> ptxdist is for embedded systems, not for full-blown desktops, which is >> why nobody has ported the whole gnome packages yet. However, gtk is >> there. >> >> rsc >> > > > > -- > ptxdist mailing list > [email protected] >
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