I've written rules for quite a few gnome packages. I haven't shared them with anyone yet because they've only been tested on one platform and I didn't figure anyone would want them.
I wanted to avoid gnome at all costs but I found myself in difficult situation. We are significantly upgrading our automation system hardware platform from an XScale to an Atom. We've fielded may requests to add a secure local operator console (centralized two factor authentication) on the normally headless box. The embedded system serves up the operator interface on https and it is usually managed off site via a web browser over a private network or locally from a hardened PC. The new system would need to support optional display, keyboard and mouse and provide a web browser. To avoid gnome and kde I opted to use xfce for a desktop environment. I added workspace rules for xfce, webkitgtk+ and the Midori webbrowser. To my disappoint I found that xfce doesn't include a display manager. Finding that xdm was unsuitable I started to look at SLiM (http://slim.berlios.de <http://slim.berlios.de/>) I couldn't find distros that were actively using it. I noticed that even most of the xfce distros used gdm. So, I threw up my hands and decided to create ptxdist rules for gdm. I under estimated how many supporting packages would be required to use gdm however I figured that since our new hardware platform had cheap NAND storage to spare, I may as well finish what I started (I could always elect to dump it for something else). So anyway... I got gdm working and added a large number of gnome packages in the process. I think quite a lot of work would still need to be done to get all of this to the quality level required to add in to ptxdist. Even if the quality level was sufficient it might add too much of a maintenance burden to be accepted. If you or anyone else would like to experiment with what I have, let me know. I'm often in irc. Below is a listing of my package repository to give you an idea of which packages I've added and of their size. Note that I have quite a few additional large packages installed such as Pidgin, full vim, wireshark with GUI which are just for testing and development purposes. I'm actually running ptxdist on my laptop now to get some testing in! So far I'm VERY happy with gdm, xfce and Midori. Regards, George McCollister 4.0K alarmsounds_1.0-1_i386.ipk 280K alsa-lib_1.0.23-1_i386.ipk 144K alsa-utils_1.0.22-1_i386.ipk 480K apache2_2.2.17-4_i386.ipk 40K atk_1.28.0-1_i386.ipk 68K audiofile_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk 320K bash_3.2.48-1_i386.ipk 216K busybox_1.17.1-3_i386.ipk 32K bzip2_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk 236K cairo_1.8.10-1_i386.ipk 28K c-ares_1.7.0-1_i386.ipk 96K consolekit_0.4.1-1_i386.ipk 16K cracklib_2.8.18-1_i386.ipk 48K cyrus-sasl_2.1.23-1_i386.ipk 300K dbus_1.4.0-1_i386.ipk 60K dbus-glib_0.88-1_i386.ipk 8.0K devicekit_002-1_i386.ipk 80K devicekit-power_008-1_i386.ipk 196K dhcp_4.1.1-1_i386.ipk 188K e2fsprogs_1.41.12-1_i386.ipk 100K eggdbus_0.6-1_i386.ipk 152K enchant_1.6.0-1_i386.ipk 24K esound_0.2.41-1_i386.ipk 8.0K eventlog_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk 396K evince_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk 196K exo_0.3.107-3_i386.ipk 68K expat_2.0.1-1_i386.ipk 168K faad2_2.7-1_i386.ipk 24K fcgi_2.4.0-1_i386.ipk 28K figlet_222-1_i386.ipk 4.0K flex_2.5.35-1_i386.ipk 20K flot_0.6-1_i386.ipk 112K 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xorg-lib-xcursor_1.1.11-1_i386.ipk 4.0K xorg-lib-xdamage_1.1.3-1_i386.ipk 12K xorg-lib-xdmcp_1.1.0-1_i386.ipk 28K xorg-lib-xext_1.2.0-1_i386.ipk 8.0K xorg-lib-xfixes_4.0.5-1_i386.ipk 128K xorg-lib-xfont_1.4.3-1_i386.ipk 40K xorg-lib-xft_2.2.0-1_i386.ipk 28K xorg-lib-xi_1.4.0-1_i386.ipk 72K xorg-lib-xkbfile_1.0.7-1_i386.ipk 8.0K xorg-lib-xkbui_1.0.2-1_i386.ipk 56K xorg-lib-xmu_1.1.0-1_i386.ipk 36K xorg-lib-xpm_3.5.9-1_i386.ipk 16K xorg-lib-xrandr_1.3.1-1_i386.ipk 16K xorg-lib-xrender_0.9.6-1_i386.ipk 4.0K xorg-lib-xres_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk 8.0K xorg-lib-xscrnsaver_1.2.1-1_i386.ipk 168K xorg-lib-xt_1.0.9-1_i386.ipk 8.0K xorg-lib-xv_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk 12K xorg-lib-xvmc_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk 8.0K xorg-lib-xxf86vm_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk 1.4M xorg-server_1.9.3-3_i386.ipk 1.2M xpsb_0.1.0-1_i386.ipk 144K xterm_267-1_i386.ipk 236K yui_2.5.2r2-1_i386.ipk 48K zlib_1.2.5-1_i386.ipk On 01/31/2011 02:37 AM, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:13:15AM +0530, vijay singh wrote: > >> Can any one tell me which ptxdist version have Gnome package available >> > ptxdist is for embedded systems, not for full-blown desktops, which is > why nobody has ported the whole gnome packages yet. However, gtk is > there. > > rsc >
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