Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Michael Catanzaro wrote:

> >  3) Hacking on session level components (gnome-session, gnome-shell, 
> > gnome-settings-daemon), and the libraries they use (gnome-desktop, 
> > clutter)
> > [...]
> > Do you log into a jhbuild session? as yourself? as a test user?
>
> I used to do 3 on rare occasions, but stopped doing that because I no
> longer remember how I ever managed to run a GNOME session under jhbuild
> in the past. There used to be instructions on the wiki, but they got
> deleted at some point because they became outdated. The problems I
> wanted to fix were never so urgent as to convince me to impel me to
> figure it out on my own. Pretty sure new contributors have no chance
> here.

Instructions are still available in the jhbuild documentation itself,
  https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/stable/jhbuild-and-gnome.html.en#running-gnome

There may be errors and parts could be simplified (GDK_USE_XFT...) but
if you're up for it I'd be happy to spend some time with you, during
GUADEC?, to get them working on your laptop, then updated online.

(survey answer: I run such a jhbuild session and I mostly use "jhbuild
make" in the module I'm working on)


        Fred