Dear Marten, unfortunately it is not possible to simply drop the gconf schemas at some default location where gconf2 could find them, if installed afterwards. Every schema needs to be registered with gconf2 explicitely.
gconf2 mainly depends on libxml2, libglib2.0 and python, which are rather standard on most of the systems now. They only miss there, where none of XFCE/GNOME/KDE or any of the related programs are installed. I don't like the idea of having grace depend on gconf2 either, but technically this is for the moment the best way to fix a release critical bug. GNOME is the default desktop installed by debian and having a project preview in the file manager is really useful. I am currently working on a solution which will not bloat the user's system with too many dependencies, if the user does not want to, but still offer project previews not only with GNOME but also with KDE. Thank you for your feedback, Ionut PS We simply use grace as a plotting program, along with gnuplot, matlab, mathematica & whatever gets the job done :-) On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:40:28AM -0500, Marten van Kerkwijk wrote: > Hi grace maintainers, > > I ran into the above-mentioned bug as well. I realise it is now fixed > by adding a dependency to gconf2. However, with this, you are forcing > people to install 7.2 MB of stuff, with, as far as I could judge, the > only purpose being that a configuration script runs properly. This > seems rather excessive! > > So my query: Is there any way the configuration can be made > independent of gconf-schemas/gconf2? (Obviously, you'll have > understood by now I don't use gnome myself...). > > With all best regards, > > Marten van Kerkwijk > > p.s. Since you are at MPG, you may be packaging grace simply so that > you can run XMM-SAS on Debian, like I do. So, let me not forget > to thank you for making that effort! > > -- > Prof. M. H. van Kerkwijk > Dept. of Astronomy & Astroph., 50 St George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada > McLennan Labs, room 1404D, tel: +1(416)9467288, fax: +1(416)9467287 > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~mhvk > > -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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