Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> (from Mon, 09 Jun 2008  
20:16:06 -0400):

> 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.

Why limiting this to gnomeish apps? Do you expect that GNOME users  
only use gnomeish apps and KDE users only kdeish ones without having a  
look at other stuff (TCL/python/perl/SDL/whatever)? For example I  
don't mind having a desktop file for acroread.

>> - 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.).

Do you have pointers?

Bye,
Alexander.

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