Re: XD2 for debian woody
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:45, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > We (Just me for the moment) are taking the port of Gnome2.2 for Woody
> > like the base, and just applying the patches and recompiling the
> > packages (actually it is not so easy). We want to change the Woody base
> > as little as possible, so we are downgrouding some dependencies (as
> > debhelper, and things like that). Apart of this, we are using the ports
> > of Branden XFree4.2 packages for Woody for the moment (deb
> > http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian woody/x421/) but we are waiting
> > to a realase of 4.3.
The backport should now work with xfree86 4.3, as long as fontconfig,
freetype, and xft2 are upgraded as well.
> I know exactly what you mean when you say it's not that easy. I think we
> should work together, because we are doing similar things. How could we
> do that? Should we create a mailing-list or what? I can provide that if
> needed (on http://glasnost.beeznest.org or on http://www.bxlug.be).
> James, what do you think, do you jump too?
I am up for integrating tested patches. One such patch that is already
integrated is the file dialog patch with nice buttons for Home, Desktop
and Documents.
Jamie
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