On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Hal Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Corey wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I'm having an issue switching e17 themes in YDL 6.1 on an Apple Powerbook G4. >> >> When I try to switch to any theme I've downloaded off of >> http://exchange.enlightenment.org/ it crashes enlightenment and >> restarts in the default theme, or simply reverts back to the default >> theme. I have not been able to switch to any theme I've downloaded >> from the site. I'm following what I believe is the correct process for >> installing the theme: >> >> 1. Download the theme into ~/.e/e/themes/ >> 2. Open up the themes configuration. >> 3. Click the Personal button. >> 4. Click the theme. >> 5. Click the OK button. >> > Yup, that's the way to add themes in DR17. >> As soon as I click OK button e17 either crashes with the >> "Enlightenment Error - This is very bad... (f1) Recover..." error >> message, and lets me restart with the previous theme I used, or, it >> does not give me an error message and simply reverts back to that >> previous theme. >> > Yes, if I recall my beta testing of YDL 6.1 correctly, downloaded themes > do not work on the YDL builds of Enlightenment. >> Here is a list of the names of some of the themes I've tried: >> >> 1. 230z_016_999_043_1.edj >> 2. A-illume-Blue.edj >> 3. detour-0.7.4_e17.edj >> 4. grunge.edj >> 5. pce17os_new_h.edj >> 6. simply-white-0.9.5.edj >> >> I read through a variety of posts and the best I can come up with is >> that e17 is very picky about versions and that perhaps the .edj files >> that are provided on the exchange site are intended only for the very >> latest version of e17. According to the About dialog, I'm running >> 0.16.999.040. It seems the latest snapshot on the enlightenment site >> is 0.16.999.060. >> > Even the snapshots on their website are, at times, out of date. If > you're looking for the newest, shiniest, version of DR17 (beware of > bugs!) I would suggest using their SVN repository. >> I read through a few sets of instructions for how to compile e17 and >> install from source but it seems rather laborious, and wondered if >> there is some easier way some of you more experienced users might be >> aware of that you could point me to. >> > On Gentoo, which I'm running on my desktop (although granted my desktop > is an x86_64 machine) there is a script called 'e17update' that > basically handles all the svn checkouts and building of the libraries > for DR17. It is, however, rather tied to emerge and layman, so it may > not be of much use to you. >> As far as I can tell, all the updates from the default repositories >> have been installed at this point. I'm not doing anything tricky I can >> think of. Its a relatively new installation, + Apple wireless working. >> >> Anyone else have similar issues switching themes on the version of e17 >> that comes with YDL6.1? >> > Yes, I encountered this problem during my beta testing of YDL 6.1. If I > recall correctly, it's a known issue that I'm not sure was ever > pinpointed or resolved. >> If so, have you figured out a way around it or have some advice on how >> to get it working. >> >> Is there an easy way to stay on the most recent version of e17 under YDL6.1? >> > The easiest way is to use their svn repository and build by hand. As > tedious as that sounds, in my opinion it's not that much work. I'm sure > someone who is more adept at bash scripting then myself could, or has, > written a script to automatically build enlightenment, similar to e17update. > > -Hal
Ok, I'll go ahead and finish building by hand. Thanks! - Corey >> Thanks, >> Corey >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
