Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Michael Johnson <ahze at 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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