Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops

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From
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Date
10 Jun 2008 00:16:16
Subject
Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops
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484DC7C6.10007@freebsd.org

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Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org> (from Sun, 8 Jun 2008
> 21:35:35 -0500):
>
>> I guess we should come up with a list of things we want in the 'easy
>> GNOME
>> setup port'. I suggest we start a wiki/todo page so others can add their
>> ideas/plans.
>
> Good idea.
>
> What we would need (IMHO):
> - .desktop files for stuff which hasn't one (back in the 2.6 days, I
> started a port for this, see
> http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/misc-desktop-files-2.6.1.tar.bz2 for
> some rudimentary stuff)

itetcu was also looking at creating entries by default for ports. I
wrote a program for him to extract PNG images from arbitrary
executables, so something may come from this. I do agree having
additional desktop files for common GNOMEish apps (e.g. Wireshark) would
be nice.

> - optional automatic config of the system (adding rc.conf stuff, maybe
> usermount sysctl stuff, ...)

This is easy as we can adopt some of the niceties done by PC-BSD (e.g.
default PolicyKit.conf, devfs config, sysctls, etc.).

Joe

>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>


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Joe Marcus Clarke
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