Evolution without gnome

Harald Schmalzbauer h at schmalzbauer.de
Sun Nov 2 10:17:40 PST 2003


On Sunday 02 November 2003 19:00, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:46, sebastian ssmoller wrote:
> > hi,
> > recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as
> > desktop/window manager but also evolution as mail client. i had a look
> > at the dependencies of evolution and found out that evolution depends on
> > the whole gnome2 desktop (!)
> >
> > can anyone explain me why evolution depends on things like gnome-panel,
> > gnome-desktop, ..., please?
>
> It doesn't.  However, it does optionally depend on gnomepilot2 which
> depends on gnomepanel.  You can build Evo with -DWITHOUT_PILOT to remove
> that dependency.
>
> > is there any way to use evolution without gnome-desktop installed (
                                      ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
???? I don't think so!

        
> > googled a bit but havnt found any useful information yet) ?
>
> Of course.  Just launch it under another desktop.
>
> Joe
>
> > thx
> > seb
> >
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