Just a few things to help people into the GNOME world that I have
learned through painful acquisition. I could not get the rpm packages
to see my self-compiled copies of gtk/glib which meant I had to apply
the rpms for the self-same libs. Not a big deal; but when I use the
rpm's compiling programs gets difficult for some reason. I reinstalled
the glib/gtk I built after installing GNOME and all works well. If you
have are gonna build GNOME aware apps, might as well grab the devel
libs. Almost every application will ask for a file or two which is in
them. Many of the applications you download from the developer's site
will search for the gnome libs and includes in spots that the rpms do
not place them. Run the configure --help and see the switches that one
can use to redirect this to the right place.
Now for just a few really cool applications hints :) I just compiled
the Gnotepad and this is a lot more than what the name implies. It is
a quite well built multi-faceted editor which compiles without any
problem as long as you have the libpng-devel and probably the
gnome-libs-devel installed. On the other end of the spectrum was balsa
for me. Balsa took me to new plateaus of compiling agony as I
basically had to get every devel lib before it would build. Thats why
I say, go ahead and grab the devel stuff.
Another group of neat applications are the games. There is a card game
which has about 12 components which I really love. The yahtzee game is
kinda cool and quirky. As its your turn; the computer calls out, "OK
human, your turn". I like that. The gnome-wide configuration tools
are pretty well done also.I plan on trying gnumeric today. That is the
spreadsheet built for the those needing to number crunch. I also
really like x-chat which is a really, really decent irc client. It is
quite robust and should be for its development. Others that are nice
is the rather low key guiTAR which does archive management.
As a second attraction with running WindowMaker, I have been quite
taken with dock applications. I have found a cd player, a great clock,
and a system load program all running at start time on the windowmaker
dock. These are really great programs and emphasizes the power of
these window managers. Now I see when people said, "WindowMaker is
cool; you just gotta see a desktop running themes", what in heck they
meant.
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Michael Perry
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