Re: Gnome 2.10 Build Order and Strategy

["F. Heitkamp" <heitkamp ameritech net>]

> but my menu is empty, the gnome-control-center main windows shows
> nothing (nothing means nothing at all), neither desktop properties
> appear when i rick click the desktop and select it.

I sympathize with you.  I have had troubles getting menus to work too when 
compiling Gnome from sources.  When people answer to the effect: Why 
download from sources and compile?  Just get the binaries...blah.  I just 
want to say, If I wanted to install the binaries, I WOULD.  I install from 
sources because: a) I want to learn about compiling sources and, b) I want 
to install in a non-standard location.

One thing that I have found (probably by grep-ing though sources) is that 
the environment variables XDG_DATA_DIRS, and XDG_DATA_HOME seem to be 
important.  XDG_DATA_DIRS should be set to a PATH-like statement. For 
example mine is set to: 
/usr/local/gnome-unstable/share:/drives/sg3/kde/kde3/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share,
XDG_DATA_HOME wants to point to a writable area to write a database.  If 
it is unset Gnome will use your home directory.

One cool thing is all the KDE apps and apps in /usr/share, etc., show up 
in the Gnome menus, at least on my system.

It seems the menus depend on the "share-mime-info" programs. There may be 
some other dependencies to get the menus working but setting the above 
variables was critical for me.

In older versions of Gnome the pointer to the Gnome share directory was 
hard-coded.  If you didn't happen to install into one of the hard coded 
locations i.e. "/usr/share", Gnome would act buggy on many programs. For 
the menus and help system to work properly Gnome must know where the 
mime-info directory is.

Fred

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