Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:16:06 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops Message-ID: <484DC7C6.10007@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080609121047.467267lugai59y0w@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <1212956773.92272.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <b2203fed0806081935s59b2cd8t5865f20e8ee6d3f4@mail.gmail.com> <20080609121047.467267lugai59y0w@webmail.leidinger.net>
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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. > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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