I am aware of three Gnome packagings for Slackware: Dropline, Gware and
Freerock. I have not tried Dropline recently because it messes too much
with my system; in particular, I dislike the fact that it installs PAM,
which I don't care for. I installed Gware (in its latest inception, for
Slackware 10.2) and quite a few Gnome applications would randomly crash
every so often. Finally, I tried with Freerock. I have some issues with
it, and noticed that the Freerock mailing list seems to be almost dead.

Are there any other alternatives to these three?

Thomas Carter wrote:
> I am aware of three Gnome packagings for Slackware: Dropline, Gware and
> Freerock. I have not tried Dropline recently because it messes too much
> with my system; in particular, I dislike the fact that it installs PAM,
> which I don't care for. I installed Gware (in its latest inception, for
> Slackware 10.2) and quite a few Gnome applications would randomly crash
> every so often. Finally, I tried with Freerock. I have some issues with
> it, and noticed that the Freerock mailing list seems to be almost dead.
>
> Are there any other alternatives to these three?
>
>

Yes, compiling gnome yourself - (the gnome page provide a script for
this; although it fails with errors if I try it).
I do not think there are other precompiled packages.

Olive

Gnome has cooties = Linus Torvalds and Slackware's Pat V. confirms it

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:46 +0000, Thomas Carter wrote:

> I am aware of three Gnome packagings for Slackware: Dropline, Gware and
> Freerock. I have not tried Dropline recently because it messes too much
> with my system; in particular, I dislike the fact that it installs PAM,
> which I don't care for. I installed Gware (in its latest inception, for
> Slackware 10.2) and quite a few Gnome applications would randomly crash
> every so often. Finally, I tried with Freerock. I have some issues with
> it, and noticed that the Freerock mailing list seems to be almost dead.
>
> Are there any other alternatives to these three?
>
Give Gware another try, possibly using the latest 2.6.x kernel from
testing, 2.6.15.3. I am using the gware's gnome 2.12.0, revision E
under slackware 10.2+ with no problems.

--
Douglas Mayne

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:46 +0000, Thomas Carter wrote:

> I am aware of three Gnome packagings for Slackware: Dropline, Gware and
> Freerock. I have not tried Dropline recently because it messes too much
> with my system; in particular, I dislike the fact that it installs PAM,
> which I don't care for. I installed Gware (in its latest inception, for
> Slackware 10.2) and quite a few Gnome applications would randomly crash
> every so often. Finally, I tried with Freerock. I have some issues with
> it, and noticed that the Freerock mailing list seems to be almost dead.
>
> Are there any other alternatives to these three?

I don't know of any others, besides rolling your own, which probably isn't
worth the aggravation... I've been using Freerock for quite a while, and
while I do have a few nitpicks (mostly with themes/icons), I've been very
pleased with it. What issues are you having with FRG?

--
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:12:30 -0600, Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:46 +0000, Thomas Carter wrote:
>
>> I am aware of three Gnome packagings for Slackware: Dropline, Gware and
>> Freerock. I have not tried Dropline recently because it messes too much
>> with my system; in particular, I dislike the fact that it installs PAM,
>> which I don't care for. I installed Gware (in its latest inception, for
>> Slackware 10.2) and quite a few Gnome applications would randomly crash
>> every so often. Finally, I tried with Freerock. I have some issues with
>> it, and noticed that the Freerock mailing list seems to be almost dead.
>>
>> Are there any other alternatives to these three?
>
> I don't know of any others, besides rolling your own, which probably isn't
> worth the aggravation... I've been using Freerock for quite a while, and
> while I do have a few nitpicks (mostly with themes/icons), I've been very
> pleased with it. What issues are you having with FRG?

The same as you - themes and icons. I can live with that, but what I
found a bit off-putting is how apathetic the Freerock mailing list seems
to be.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:56:20 +0000, Thomas Carter wrote:

>> I don't know of any others, besides rolling your own, which probably isn't
>> worth the aggravation... I've been using Freerock for quite a while, and
>> while I do have a few nitpicks (mostly with themes/icons), I've been very
>> pleased with it. What issues are you having with FRG?

> The same as you - themes and icons. I can live with that, but what I
> found a bit off-putting is how apathetic the Freerock mailing list seems
> to be.

Yeah, it seems to be that way most of the time. I've gotten some good
help in the IRC channel, if you happen to do IRC. It's #slackbuild on
irc.freenode.net , and the head developer, "freerock" is active in there,
among some other major contributors and experts. Check that out if you'd
like.

--
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

>What issues are you having with FRG?

Well for starters it installs slapt-get. You know, one of those mass
updaters that messes with your system. Now I don't know what I have
installed! Oh, at first it seems so nice.

It puts stuff in /usr/local/bin which occurs earlier in your PATH than
/usr/bin where most tgz packages are installed. I like to get packages
from linuxpackages.net and I have found that I must rm the programs
installed by frg from /usr/local/bin in order to use the latest versions
installed in /usr/bin by tgz packages.

I have NO interest in learning to use slapt-get or any of its ilk.

I chose Gnome years ago, but have become very disenchanted with it over
the past few years. It is so MS Windows like in the way it hinders you
from low level access. Menus are an example.

The only app that I find useful is gedit, and that is due to the tabs.

IOW, give me gedit and xfce. I can't wait to dump Gnome.

John

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:05:50 -0600, 4partee wrote:

>>What issues are you having with FRG?
>
> Well for starters it installs slapt-get. You know, one of those mass
> updaters that messes with your system. Now I don't know what I have
> installed! Oh, at first it seems so nice.
>
> It puts stuff in /usr/local/bin which occurs earlier in your PATH than
> /usr/bin where most tgz packages are installed. I like to get packages
> from linuxpackages.net and I have found that I must rm the programs
> installed by frg from /usr/local/bin in order to use the latest versions
> installed in /usr/bin by tgz packages.


then you should do upgradepkg instead of installpkg, and the old package
will be deinstalled.

--
i.

> then you should do upgradepkg instead of installpkg, and the old package
> will be deinstalled.


Tried that with Mplayer. Said package did not exist. Doesn't work! Had
to rm from /usr/local/bin manually.

John