On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:22:56AM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote > On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I think I just realized what this means. I run ICEWM, not GNOME. > > GNUMERIC and ABIWORWD and GIMP are the 3 GNOME apps that I use a lot. > > Do I have to emerge GNOME-BASE in it's entirety just to get GSettings > > working? > > Then I misunderstood. I thought that you were running GNOME-2.32 and > were complaining that while 2.32-era programs like epiphany-2.32, > gnome-control-center-2.32, etc. expect all their settings to be stored > in gconf, modern programs or libraries designed for GNOME-3 expect these > settings to be stored in gsettings, which results in inconsistencies and > strange behavior. > > But if you are running IceWM, this should not be a problem. To get > gsettings working, you only need 4 things: dbus, glib, dconf, and > gsettings-desktop-schemas. And the latest stable versions of them would > be sufficient.
Thank you very much. This will be helpful on my netbook (2 gigs ram and Intel Atom processor). Gnome 3.x would be too much for it to run. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
