xfce 4.6.0 has been announced, but it is a rather complicated package to build and install. Will xfce 4.6.0 be available as a Fedora 9 package?
Thanks.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:53:51 -0500 Dave Feustel dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
xfce 4.6.0 has been announced, but it is a rather complicated package to build and install. Will xfce 4.6.0 be available as a Fedora 9 package?
Pretty unlikely. I'm not sure all the dependencies are available there, and its a pretty intrusive change for a stable release (something like 60 packages would need to update with all the plugins, etc)
We are still thinking about F10 as well.
Thanks.
kevin
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:53:51 -0500 Dave Feustel dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
xfce 4.6.0 has been announced, but it is a rather complicated package to build and install. Will xfce 4.6.0 be available as a Fedora 9 package?
Pretty unlikely. I'm not sure all the dependencies are available there, and its a pretty intrusive change for a stable release (something like 60 packages would need to update with all the plugins, etc)
We are still thinking about F10 as well.
Thanks.
kevin
kevin is it major surgery to build xfce 4.6 in F10? as i've literally just finished downloading the full source tarball, (and the graphical installer in case i came up against to much problems lol) and if it's going to be a major hassle i'll just pass for now as my aspire one is running pretty sweet and i don't want to rock the boat, also if your going to build it for F10 i can wait for that ;)
phil
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:42:25 +0000 phil happyharrysco1@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
kevin is it major surgery to build xfce 4.6 in F10? as i've literally just finished downloading the full source tarball, (and the graphical installer in case i came up against to much problems lol) and if it's going to be a major hassle i'll just pass for now as my aspire one is running pretty sweet and i don't want to rock the boat, also if your going to build it for F10 i can wait for that ;)
F10 shouldn't be too bad.
I do have a local repo here, but I haven't updated it yet to the 4.6.0 final packages. Also, I haven't tried to rebuild all the plugins for F10.
I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them?
phil
kevin
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:42:25 +0000 phil happyharrysco1@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
kevin is it major surgery to build xfce 4.6 in F10? as i've literally just finished downloading the full source tarball, (and the graphical installer in case i came up against to much problems lol) and if it's going to be a major hassle i'll just pass for now as my aspire one is running pretty sweet and i don't want to rock the boat, also if your going to build it for F10 i can wait for that ;)
F10 shouldn't be too bad.
I do have a local repo here, but I haven't updated it yet to the 4.6.0 final packages. Also, I haven't tried to rebuild all the plugins for F10.
I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them?
phil
kevin
that would be great kevin, just let me know when your repo is ready and i'll get to testing them out :)
phil
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:12:41 +0000 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" frankly3d@gmail.com wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them?
phil
kevin
I would also be willing to test.
FRank
that would be great kevin, just let me know when your repo is ready and i'll get to testing them out :)
phil
ok. I have a prelim repo setup here now. ;)
Note: You will need to 'rpm -e imsettings-xfce' first as I don't have the updated imsettings plugin in the repo yet.
The repo is at:
http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/
there are i386 and x86_64 packages. I tried to also do plugins.
You can use:
--cut-- [46-for-f10] name=Xfce 4.6 for Fedora 10 failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/10/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 --cut--
In a /etc/yum.repos.d/xfce46-for-f10-testing-only.repo file.
Note that these are unofficial and for testing only. I welcome all feedback, but make no promises. ;)
If things go smoothly in feedback and in the upcoming Xfce test day for rawhide we may update f10. It's still a lot of change, so we are leary of jumping on it too fast.
Let me know how it goes. ;)
kevin
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:12:41 +0000 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" frankly3d@gmail.com wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them?
phil
kevin
I would also be willing to test.
FRank
that would be great kevin, just let me know when your repo is ready and i'll get to testing them out :)
phil
ok. I have a prelim repo setup here now. ;)
Note: You will need to 'rpm -e imsettings-xfce' first as I don't have the updated imsettings plugin in the repo yet.
The repo is at:
http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/
there are i386 and x86_64 packages. I tried to also do plugins.
You can use:
--cut-- [46-for-f10] name=Xfce 4.6 for Fedora 10 failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/10/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 --cut--
In a /etc/yum.repos.d/xfce46-for-f10-testing-only.repo file.
Note that these are unofficial and for testing only. I welcome all feedback, but make no promises. ;)
If things go smoothly in feedback and in the upcoming Xfce test day for rawhide we may update f10. It's still a lot of change, so we are leary of jumping on it too fast.
Let me know how it goes. ;)
kevin
thanks so much for taking the time to do this kevin 8), yum is doing it's thing just now. so i'll let you know how it goes.
phil
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:12:41 +0000 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" frankly3d@gmail.com wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them?
phil
kevin
I would also be willing to test.
FRank
that would be great kevin, just let me know when your repo is ready and i'll get to testing them out :)
phil
ok. I have a prelim repo setup here now. ;)
Note: You will need to 'rpm -e imsettings-xfce' first as I don't have the updated imsettings plugin in the repo yet.
The repo is at:
http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/
there are i386 and x86_64 packages. I tried to also do plugins.
You can use:
--cut-- [46-for-f10] name=Xfce 4.6 for Fedora 10 failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/46-for-f10/10/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 --cut--
In a /etc/yum.repos.d/xfce46-for-f10-testing-only.repo file.
Note that these are unofficial and for testing only. I welcome all feedback, but make no promises. ;)
If things go smoothly in feedback and in the upcoming Xfce test day for rawhide we may update f10. It's still a lot of change, so we are leary of jumping on it too fast.
Let me know how it goes. ;)
kevin
kevin everything seems to be fine so far with 4.6 on F10 but for one problem, in replacing xfce-mcs-plugin-gsynaptics i can no longer change my touchpad settings with the gui, every time i try to start xfce4-mouse-settings from either the system menu or the xfce4 settings manager i get a segfault,
xfce4-mouse-set[2817]: segfault at 0 ip 0804abc7 sp bfb84680 error 4 in xfce4-mouse-settings[8048000+a000]
this is the only error i've come accross so far, system is an acer aspire one A150
uname -a Linux aspire.one 2.6.29-0.53.aao150.rc7.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 13:57:19 GMT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
if there's anything you want me to do just let me know, but it's not a problem as i can use synclient if for any reason i want to change the touchpad settings
phil
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:05:31 +0000 psmith johnsmithdoe14@googlemail.com wrote:
kevin everything seems to be fine so far with 4.6 on F10 but for one problem, in replacing xfce-mcs-plugin-gsynaptics i can no longer change my touchpad settings with the gui, every time i try to start xfce4-mouse-settings from either the system menu or the xfce4 settings manager i get a segfault,
xfce4-mouse-set[2817]: segfault at 0 ip 0804abc7 sp bfb84680 error 4 in xfce4-mouse-settings[8048000+a000]
yeah. It's likely trying to use the new xinput setup that will be in place in F11. ;(
this is the only error i've come accross so far, system is an acer aspire one A150
ok.
uname -a Linux aspire.one 2.6.29-0.53.aao150.rc7.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 13:57:19 GMT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
if there's anything you want me to do just let me know, but it's not a problem as i can use synclient if for any reason i want to change the touchpad settings
ok. I can look at rebuilding that, but not sure it will work with the older input setup in f10. ;(
phil
kevin
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:05:31 +0000 psmith johnsmithdoe14@googlemail.com wrote:
kevin everything seems to be fine so far with 4.6 on F10 but for one problem, in replacing xfce-mcs-plugin-gsynaptics i can no longer change my touchpad settings with the gui, every time i try to start xfce4-mouse-settings from either the system menu or the xfce4 settings manager i get a segfault,
xfce4-mouse-set[2817]: segfault at 0 ip 0804abc7 sp bfb84680 error 4 in xfce4-mouse-settings[8048000+a000]
yeah. It's likely trying to use the new xinput setup that will be in place in F11. ;(
this is the only error i've come accross so far, system is an acer aspire one A150
ok.
uname -a Linux aspire.one 2.6.29-0.53.aao150.rc7.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 13:57:19 GMT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
if there's anything you want me to do just let me know, but it's not a problem as i can use synclient if for any reason i want to change the touchpad settings
ok. I can look at rebuilding that, but not sure it will work with the older input setup in f10. ;(
phil
kevin
like i said kevin there's no real problem as i have already setup the touchpad to my liking and i can use synclient to change it if i need to, i just let you know as feedback.
i am really liking the new xfce, little changes like the administration sub menu, and especially the new gconf like settings editor, it even feels snappier in use, though that may just be my imagination lol. xfce 4.6 imho is a big improvement :)
phil