(Attention, cross-posting ahead!) --------------------------------- Hi, enlightenment community!
You may be interested in our latest creation: a klik-able enlightenment package. What, you don't know about klik yet?? OK, OK, not everybody reads the "Dot". So here is the pitch: http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/ Our new e17 package allows you to deliver in a very efficient way a very recent e17 snapshot to your friends (hey, they may still be on KDE, or even worse -- so you surely want to show them E's merits, no?) :-) What klik provides, is an extremely easy way to "install" software into user land for short term testing or permanent use. The klik-ified packages are in essence AppDir bundles (like on Mac OS or NeXT), but compressed into one filesystem image that can be mounted to a mountpoint in userspace and run from there. It means: you can run several versions of the same application at the same time, and your system will be unaffected. If you want to get rid of a software, delete exactly one file. If you want to test a new software, copy exactly one .cmg file to your system. The basic principle is 1 application == 1 file Our klik server (klik.atekon.de) currently has 4000+ packages to offer. Most of these are auto generated: the klik client uses a "recipe" that is sent to him from the klik server. The recipe enumerates the (mostly) .deb package URLs to use and get the binaries; it then contains the instructions how to create a .cmg image file from the .deb files. That means the clients mostly create the .cmg file themselves, which makes the concept very scaleable. To install the klik client, run this command: wget klik.atekon.de -O - | sh and follow the instructions. What this does execatly do, is outlined in the above linked article. The result is that from now on you simply type in a Konqueror or Firefox address bar: klik://xvier # we recommend to try this first; it is small enough # to not waste too much of your time should klik not # work for your distro yet. klik://enlightenment klik://kdeedu etc. and the package gets magically onto your system and starts. Limitations: klik has been well tested on Kanotix, Knoppix and Debian. Recently support for SUSE-10.0 and Ubuntu/Kubuntu have been added. We know that not all packages work on all platforms equally well. We need more helping hands. You can subscribe to the klik@kde.org and klik-devel@kde.org mailing lists: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/klik-devel # Developers https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/klik # Users or visit us in channel #klik on Freenode.net The initial announcement of the klik-ified e17 package is to be found here: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1490 And finally, here is a challenge to you: # Our klik://enlightenment package doesnt work perfectly. F.e., # on startup, it resets some of the paths we want it to use. # That means, not all applications are in the menu, or do # start properly. We are sure one of you wants to fix that, and even take over the maintainership of the klik://enlightenment package. Some more hints about package debugging are in recent stories of this blog: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/418 Have fun with enlightenment and klik! Cheers, Simon Peter ("probono" in IRC) Kurt Pfeifle ("pipitas" in IRC) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
