On Friday 11 Jan 2013 à 01:32:48 (+0100), Armin K. wrote: > Dana 11.1.2013 0:49, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL je napisao: > > Hi, > > > > For accessibility investigations and due to issues I have with distros, I > > choose LFS to use my daily system and do tests. 2 things can be tested today > > in accessibility matter: xfce (in progress) and gnome3 (complicated). > > > > So I need gnome, as well as xfce. My question: what's the status of gnome > > support in blfs? I had read a thread about stopping supporting gnome in the > > book as the maintainer lets it for KDE. What's up? Is there some position? > > > > GNOME in BLFS is currently at 3.6.2 - latest available stable release. > Some components are out of date a bit - these got released after 3.6.2 > release. > > As for GNOME and BLFS, I gave up on updating it. I'll stick to 3.6 - I > still use it. I don't like the direction where it's going and I switched > to KDE, as you noted. > > If you like, you can step in and upgrade/add components when they get > released. I can always help in core components since I always build them. > > I'll always build the following components: > > dconf (for IBus - There's KDE applet for that), GConf, > > gnome-keyring (beats kwallet, has auto unlock capability via PAM), > > GTK+ including all deps, > > Rhythmbox (requires lot of GNOME components, including WebKitGTK+ and > GStreamer 1.0. Also, Brasero is needed for CD burning plugin), > > And, of course, the applications > > Evince, Gedit, Eog, File Roller, Gcalctool, Vinagre (nice VNC client), > > as well as their deps. > > > To conciliate my needs and contributions, I can, if interested, help or > > maintain with GNOME. It'll enable to let blfs updated, me to test, amd me > > to speak with upstream devs in general, understand this project and argue > > with accessibility issues more easily. > > > > Interested? In any case, can you tell me the current opinion of blfs about > > this > > desktop? Supported? Not? Need some contrib? just help? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > JPM > > > > It's in good shape for now, but it will soon need some love. Every help > is appreciated.
Cool. I think we can do some efficient team. I know maintaining GNOME is hard. I only do it because it's the alone accessible desktop today, and distros cannot package it properly, except Suse or Fedora. So I try myself with lfs methods. I hope xfce will become accessible and, thus, alternate to gnome. Regards, -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
