From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 23:48:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9DE1065670; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:48:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B04314E191; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EE29E52.5030907@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:48:34 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <20111209184403.GA17862@regency.nsu.ru> <4EE296DA.60409@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EE296DA.60409@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev Subject: Re: gconf schemas + .desktop file question X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:48:35 -0000 On 12/09/2011 15:16, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On 12/9/11 1:44 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> hi there, >> >> i'm currently working on `graphics/ufraw' port and thinking if it should >> install files mentioned in ${subj}. the port provides them, but i am not >> sure if it's ok to enable installation thereof. >> >> my hesitation is due to the fact that i don't use gnome, gconf, or related >> crap; i believe those things are badly implemented and contradict unix >> philosophy. nonetheless, if presence of these files would not hurt purists >> like me, and does not require any dependencies, why not? maybe it would >> be useful for people that are deeply in the gnome camp. >> >> thus my question is: is it ok to install them without setting some >> USE_GNOME=gconf magic and calling `update-desktop-database' in makefile? >> i'd rather not pull these dependencies, but if i have too, i'd appreciate >> some hints of what should i include if corresponding OPTION would be set. >> >> so far i may just install them as plain files, with no gnomish dependencies >> recorded. > > You need to run gconftool-2 to properly install schema, which means that > gconf will need to be installed. For the .desktop file, look at > x11/xterm. They do a good job of making this optional. +1 The bare .desktop files are used in xfce, which IMO has a nice balance between "bare bones WM" which I tend to favor and "kitchen sink DE" which I have a powerful dislike for. Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/