new emerald in ports (0.5.2) + beryl = problem?

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 18:00 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:28 -0400, Yousif Hassan wrote:
> > Hey all:
> > 
> > I took the "chance" of upgrading emerald to 0.5.2 - I'm pretty sure this
> > new port revision is in there to eventually support compiz-fusion, which
> > is also at 0.5.2 since emerald is now part of that.  However, there's
> > still a dependency on emerald from the beryl port - and the beryl port
> > hasn't moved!
> > 
> > To wit, if you're using Beryl, as I am, there seems to be a problem.
> > The new 0.5.2 Emerald decorator doesn't work.  I know what the problem
> > is, but I can't seem to solve it:
> > 
> > beryl: decoration: property ignored because version is 20070319 and
> > decoration plugin version is 20061011
> > 
> > 20070319 certainly makes sense since this is a new version of emerald,
> > but even after updating x11-themes/emerald-themes, I can't get the
> > decorations to load.
> > 
> > Is there another module that should be made a dependency that I need to
> > update/install?  Or is the problem beryl (in which case, it may or may
> > not get fixed there...?)
> > 
> > I'm sure this will be sorted out eventually, I just wanted to get the
> > ball rolling in case this problem has not been discovered yet.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no fix.  The version of emerald for c-f will not
> work with beryl.  Emerald should be removed as a dependency of the beryl
> port, and users will just have to stick with aquamarine and heliodor
> (assuming they're even available...  I'm not in FreeBSD at the moment to
> confirm this).  

heliodor is in ports, aquamarine is not.  emerald is only a dependency
of the metaport.

robert.

> Adam
> 
> 
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