Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:45:32 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <opruuvh6q08ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1062477159.18925.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030901152526.D89776@freebsdmall.com> <1062459309.18925.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <opruuumd1i8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <1062477159.18925.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:32:39 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:26, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:35:10 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke >> <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote: >> >> Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a FreeBSD >> >> vs Linux segment. We've already got some ideas from the KDE guys >> >> about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..). Do you have >> any >> >> other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against Linux? The >> >> producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on video. >> > >> > AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release. Gucharmap is also a nice >> > bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application). >> > Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer. >> Whatever >> > you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work really well >> with >> > FreeBSD [yet]). I hear the GKrellM stuff is good. >> > >> > The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does >> > net/netspeed_applet. Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice >> > on FreeBSD. Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks >> very >> > nice. I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect management >> tool >> > with a gantt interface. Totem plays video streams and DVDs nicely. >> > Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo. I would also show >> off >> > news/pan2 if you get a chance. It's been praised as one of the best >> > looking and feeling GUIs out there. Also, deskutils/gdeskcal is >> nothing >> > but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't ported yet :-(). Gaim is a >> nice >> >> I have gDesklets 0.20 port in my local and it works great, but only one >> or >> two plugins that are working. The rest of them aren't working and I am >> still trying to figure how I can get them work. gDesklets will be >> useless >> without those plugins, so should I go ahead send it to PR and worry >> about >> plugins later? Or, should I just wait until I get most plugins work? >> Current, I only can get clock and digital plugins work fine, but haven't >> create the port of those yet. > > What's the problem with the other plug-ins? I would like to see at > least the framework ported so others can get a chance to add plug-ins. Ok, I will go ahead send to PR what I have it right now without the menu, then update the better one later with menu and few plugins. The problem is that.. StarterBar (a major eye candy of panel) will not work, because it keeps read the wrong path '/usr/X11R6/bin/../share/pixmaps/gnome-unknown.png' and I can't figure out where the path is in the script to allow me change it. And others just don't work and I have no idea how to explain, like weather (I know, it needs wget) will not work without output the error. I have an idea, I will create a new thread in the -gnome (or/and -port?) with list of problems. Then, someone can help if they know the Python and how to solve it. Cheers, Mezz >> I am thinking about add a select script like what ghostscript and php >> have, but it's for gDesklets to choice which stuff plugins they want to >> have. gDesklets's plugins installtion and add in gDesklets system method >> suck, btw.. :-/ But, I think can do extract and install them by manual >> thought. > > I like the menu idea. Just remember to construct the port so that it > builds a nice default package. > >> >> P.S. If anyone want to help, just let me know.. I will send you the >> gDesklets port and let you play with it. > > I don't really have a lot of time right now, so if it were added to the > tree, that would be the best. > > Joe > >> >> Anyway, back to the point, I agree with what Joe has said everything in >> here. AbiWord2 and pan2 are the great apps to show off. :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> > functional app on FreeBSD, and also adds a little notification area >> > icon. If you can, showing off gnomemeeting would be cool, too. >> > >> > Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more >> > specific ideas. Let me know if you need help configuring, building, >> or >> > setting up any of the GNOME stuff. >> > >> > Joe -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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