what is the status of gnome at the moment?

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:20 pm

hi all

just a quick question. what is the current status of gnome?? are we up to date. if so, i will package ekiga.

best wishes

gapan · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:55 pm

Gnome 2.20 is out, but we're still in 2.18. We'll definitely need someone to update gnome at some point. I guess it's OK for now, being one version behind for about a month is not too bad, but it would have to be updated eventually.

But I think you can package ekiga, based on gnome 2.18. I don't believe there would be any problems there.

fredg · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:27 pm

For the moment, I think that Zenwalk Gnome is dead ...

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cfuttrup · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:36 pm

The maintainer was Zeqadious and he has announced that he left (a while ago), so GNOME is unmaintained = free to be picked up.

Best regards,
Claus

gapan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:46 pm

fredg wrote:

For the moment, I think that Zenwalk Gnome is dead ...

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I'd rather think it's lying dormant for a while. Someone *cough* might pick it up when he actually finds the time.

oskar · **Joined:** Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:17 am **Posts:** 2099

afaik zeq has built a prerelease for gnome-2.20 before he left, same with xorg-7.3, the software build-scripts were there but not yet tested and complete.

tsuren · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:20 am

what exactly do we need to compile for gnome 2.20? i would do it myself, but i am not totally confident that i could carry this out without help. i am not a really big fan of gnome, but i just cannot see that 2.20 is not available in zenwalk...

Borromini · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:27 am

The biggest problem is always getting the dependencies right

. If you ask zeq nicely though you might inherit his scripts, which is some great work. That makes it easy to start out with.

gapan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:39 am

The build order is right there in gnome's homepage: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/e ... stallation

fushark · **Joined:** Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:51 am **Posts:** 1677

Zeq's packages are still in his personal repo, right? Let me check..........
There it is, he has the prerelease built (dated September 24, 2007):
http://zeqadious.homelinux.net/zenwalk- ... e/extra/g/

HTH

gapan · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:21 pm

I expect to have some time for gnome 2.20 by the end of this week. Tsuren, should I go for it then or do you want to have a look first?

tsuren · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:51 pm

really, if you could, i have no objection.

go for it

best wishes

gapan · **Posted:** Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:03 pm

I started working on gnome 2.20. I'm going to be building it on top of the new xorg 7.3 kindly provided by axxium.

You can monitor my progress here. I'll be populating it with packages and buildscripts as I make them.

tsuren · **Posted:** Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:56 am

great

thanks gapan $\!D/$

gapan · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:46 am

Gnome 2.20 is almost ready. You can find packages here: http://users.zenwalk.org/user-accounts/gapan/gnome/

Be warned that there are no default settings installed right now, so your desktop will look rather empty, no panels, no wallpaper, no metacity theme etc...

There are a few things that I need to sort out first, mainly trying to fix some bugs and Zenifying the desktop.

Things known not to work until now are:
- gnome-control-center doesn't have a menu shortcut
- xscreensaver has to be launched by hand
- gnome-search-tool applet is not working (it is just an entry in the applet list)

The gnome desktop is expected to have a Zenwalk facelift and to look something like this when it's finished:

what is the status of gnome at the moment?

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