Re: FYI: garnome/gnome-session splash pic patch does not work

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 14:53, Ivan Noris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> first of all, this is only a minor bug, or inconvenience rather than a bug.
> Anyway:
> 
> look at gnome-session Makefile. There is a patch mentioned in Makefile
> (default-splash.diff) which changes the default splash screen when logging to
> Garnome. The picture is downloaded and copied to the work directory.

You can also change the splash image by copying your own image over the
current one in $GARNOME/share/pixmaps/splash/garnome-splash.png

> But the patch won't succeed unless you have gnome-session 2.5.2, because the
> patch uses "gnome-session-2.5.2" directory, which does not exist in Garnome
> 2.5.91 (or more precisely, in any Garnome since Gnome 2.5.2)

Wrong. Patch does not need an exact dir path to succeed. As long as the
path is close enough it should be able to guess correctly. I have not
heard anyone complain that the patch has failed for them. It worked for
me just fine *as-is*. What error did you get when you were compiling
gnome-session?

> I have noticed the same incovenience in older Garnome too.
> 
> Solution: simple. Change version numbers in default-splash.diff by hand.

This would explain why the patch failed for you.

> Eventualy, the patch should be updated before each Garnome is released.
>
> Also, when I did repatch for my older Garnome, I had to patch against
> gnome-session.schemas.in.in instead of gnome-session.schemas.in as provided in
> the patch to get it work. I couldn't test this today with G2.5.91, as I'm
> short in disk space and must use clean after each install :( Could someone
> test this? Thanks.

There is no gnome-session.schemas.in.in??? There is a
gnome-session.schemas.in though. That's what got patched.

> Regards,
> VIX
> 
> p.s. building Mozilla 1.6 (from Garnome) on Linux (MDK9.1) takes 1.5G of disk
> space. Even if I disable mailnews and other components and use BUILD_CLEAN=1,
> this is the very _minimal_ space you need to have on disk to build it. And if
> you build and install on the same partition, you need 1.7-2GB. Grrrr. Should
> be mentioned in README since Mozilla is needed for Epi or Galeon anyway.

Mozilla is listed as a dependency. It is not the fault of garnome that
your distro provides a mozilla package that is incomplete and missing
the nss header files. You should file a bug with Mandrake.

The info on disk space is only really needed for:

cd desktop
make paranoid-install

It would be a pain to provide disk usage for every package that is not
installed by default. Compiling, especially --with-debug turned on eats
lots of disk space.

> Good night to all,

It's actually afternoon for me here. :-)

Bob
 
-- 
Bob Kashani
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome/