Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST:
off topicIt seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned
from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd
drop it as unmaintained, along with all the gtk1 applications. Gnome-1,
Xmms, bin
On 10/5/05, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Second that. For XMMS alone, it's worth keeping glib-1, gtk+-1. I
personally will err on the side of gtk-2 every time, but inevitably
something forces me to install gtk-1. As for gnome-1, I'm not sure
why anyone would be using that.
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:37 CST:
Though gnome1 is useful for gnucash, it is not yet ported to gnome2.
Perhaps gnucash should be made into an hint instead of keeping it in
the book?
Why? What useful purpose would that do?
GnuCash works with current LFS-SVN and fills a
On 10/5/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a gtk2 fork of xmms, beep media player. Just make the
following symlinks for compatibility:
ln -sf beep-config /usr/bin/xmms-config
ln -sf libbeep.so /usr/lib/libxmms.so
Yeah, I use this, but it's sometimes still buggy.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
GnuCash works with current LFS-SVN and fills a void that really
can't be solved with any other open source package.
Aside from those recently reviewed by The Grumpy Editor, of course:
http://lwn.net/Articles/149383/. Note, I'm not suggesting that GnuCash
be removed,
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:16 CST:
As for gnome-1, I'm not sure
why anyone would be using that.
It is a must for GnuCash. Which is a really, really good
financial/cash manager application.
Of course, you have to have some cash
R.
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Richard A Downing wrote:
Of course, you have to have some cash
And not be married - a finanical management application is of no use to
me whatsoever - I already know my wife spends money faster than I can
earn it, I don't need a computer to tell me that :)
Matt.
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sash wrote:
All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and
consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find
a typo in the book However, Gerard values my contribution even though it
seems meager me. I value everyone's contributions and enjoy learning
from
My daughter called while I was typing this... I knew I shouldn't have
sent it while on the telephone with her embarrassed look
sash wrote:
All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and
consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or
find a typo in the book.
Richard A Downing wrote:
Guys,
You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently.
[deleted]
To put it simply, I just don't enjoy being an editor - and I'm
embarrased that I have not felt able to do more. Maybe I'm missing
something, so please help me make up my mind.
On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:37 CST:
Though gnome1 is useful for gnucash, it is not yet ported to gnome2.
Perhaps gnucash should be made into an hint instead of keeping it in
the book?
Why? What useful purpose would
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 15:12 CST:
Just a suggestion in case the majority don't want gnome1 in the book.
It's *impossible* to determine a majority. The *readers* of the book
are what matters. It is impossible to poll them.
We recently removed Courier from the book. But
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I'll disagree here. There are many useful GTK+-1 applications out
there. XMMS being one of them. Noted on the XMMS home page:
For the fifth year in a row XMMS has been voted Favourite Audio
Tool by the readers of LinuxJournal.
Not that their self-advertising is worth a
Although the applications using gtk+-1 are slowly being updated to
gtk+-2, it is not yet time to remove it from BLFS.
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST:
off topicIt seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned from
BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd drop it
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