Bug#796828: RFS: xfce4-equake-plugin/1.3.8
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Hi Jeroen,
>I am not sure what I could (or should) change with regards to the
>package to enable successful install of the whole xfce4 DE plus
>dependencies, or the configuration of the xfce session for the login
>manager. Wouldn't it be out of the scope of a panel plugin?
yes maybe, that was a question, I think people will install your plugin
*after* they install xfce, so not needed to make it required
>In a 64 bits environment it is installed into
>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/ when you install it using
>the package.
>
>If compiled from source it will go into /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/ or
>/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/ if you did not specify
>"--prefix=/usr" during when running "./configure".
>
I know how to handle plugins in general, the question was "where I should click?"
>In xfce you need to right click the panel and select to add a new item,
>the requester that pops up may not always show newly installed plugins
>right away. You may have to close it, wait for a bit and try again. It
>will notice the presence of new panel-plugins eventually. It is possible
>that if installed into /usr/local/... it will not find it.
>
>Similarly when I installed xfce 4.12 from source into /usr/local to test
>equake out in a newer xfce environment the pane plugin requester, when
>using the /usr/local installed xfce, would only find the plugin if
>installed into /usr/local/...
>
>I am sure there are ways around it, but I didn't investigate further.
I'm used to gnome-shell, where the interface is (in my opinion)
more user friendly.
e.g. you can install from extensions.gnome.org, and they appear automagically on
the desktop environment, or use apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-name
and the extension appears automatically at the end of the apt run
(I didn't try recently but this was my experience with gnome).
xfce seems a little bit more manual on installation, fine.
>I think I have taken care of all these in the package I just uploaded to
>mentors.
>
>Let me know if anything is still wrong.
>
>Thanks for the suggestions,
I would have sponsored right away, but I guess some refinements might be good.
1) rules file: please remove lines from 2 to 8
2) control file: you didn't run wrap-and-sort :)
and debhelper (>= 9) is already fine
3) control/rules file: what about using dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev?
the other stuff looks really good now, and the package works correctly :)
cheers,
G.
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