On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:03 +0000, Martin White wrote: > Try as i might though i just couldn't get used to living without a > file manager. This was dissapointing t me, but i guess the years of > KDE have rubbed off on me.
You can run any KDE or GNOME application, including their file managers, in E16. If you're running Firefox, you probably already have the core GNOME libraries, for example, so you could just install Nautilus and go... > So this afternoon i went down the Evidence route. ...But Evidence has some neat features Konqi and Nautilus don't. :) > Things were a little shaky with the source compile and in the end i > gave up with that as i shouve been writing code not compiling other > peoples really. I don't recall off my head what the sticking point was > but i decided to give the SUSE RPMs a shot just for the hell of it, i > could always back it out afterall. > > So, I installed about 7 RPMs (ecore, edb, edje, eet, embryo, evas, > evidence itself) and it seems to be working a treat. Nice one!! > > Did i ought to be overly concerned about the fact that they were SUSE > RPMs? I guess not since it's working, but i don't really want to hit a > problem further down the line on this work machine :) I think i have > to use --nodeps on 1 of the rpms, but that was one of the very first > so i probably ended up resolving the dependencies later on anyway. I think Mandrake has RPMs for some of those libraries in contrib, but I don't think Evidence is there. Maybe easiest to keep running the SUSE RPMs if they don't whine about missing libraries. (.so's, that is. Missing packages are different; some undoubtedly just have different names in Mandrake.) > And finally, is there much more to getting E17 to work seeing as all > of the above RPMs were from E17 iirc? E17 is under heavy development and lacks many features. For day-to-day tasks you might be better off with E16. The only way to find out how much work it would be is trying it. :) At that point, I'd personally compile from CVS rather than use the RPMs if they are at all out of date. But I don't know if there are CVS changes Evidence hasn't kept up with. > Can the two coexist? E16 & 17 that is? If i have to remove E16 then > i'd be reluctant for now, as i say, this is a work laptop and i can't > spare even half a day if it goes completely pear shaped. At least i'd > have to be fairly creative with a few excuses!! E16.7 and older cannot co-exist with E17. E16.8 (current CVS) can. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
