Re: Gnome/Enlightment question

["Matt Craun" <fantamos excite com>]

I have already asked wheither the pager could merged with the E new pager
included .16. Raster's comments were at the time, it is not planned for the
current 16 version. I could foresee though  attaching pagers together. I
think the current reason is Gnome introduces too many variables into
enlightenment. 



On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:09:44 -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:30:46AM +0200, Markus Wollgarten was heard to
say:
> > Dear Gnome-List,
> > 
> > I installed gnome and enlightment (both 1.0.x) on my PC running the
Debian
> > distribution. Now I see, that several functions, like the menus, are
available
> > both from Gnome and Enlightment. Why? Probably this is a rather stupid
> > question, but don't blame me. I'm just wondering whether these doubled
features
> > will take resources. Why is here not a single manager which does all, or
two
> > managers which clearly divide their duties?
> 
>   I believe that the reason is that Enlightenment is supposed to be
useful
> without Gnome; hence the massive duplication of features between it and
Gnome.
> (pagers..menus..now widget sets, configuration dialogs, IPC, HTTP, ... )
> 
>   It would be nice if there were a way for E to detect Gnome's presence
and
> deal better with that situation--for example, merging the 'Gnome Apps'
menu
> into the root menu--and I suspect it'll happen eventually, it just hasn't
yet.
> 
> > p.s.: Is there an easy way to move the menus from icewm to the
> > Gnome/Enlightment menus?
> 
>   Yes--install the Debian packages for Gnome and you'll get a menu-method
for
> Gnome/E.  Umm..aside from that..you may be able to get the menu-method
and
> menufiles by themselves somehow and install them..but you'd probably have
to
> tweak them to deal with whatever install prefix you used for Gnome.  The
Debian
> packages are reasonably up to date, you may want to just use them unless
you
> really need to compile from source. (I'm assuming you didn't install them
since
> if you had, the menus would have shown up right)
> 
> (the apt sourcelines are:
> deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable
main
> deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main
> 
>  where the first one is for Slink systems and the second is for Potato)
> 
>   Daniel
> 
> -- 
>   Moths and flame.
>   The glory blinds them.
> 
>              -- C. J. Cherryh, _The Dreaming Tree_
> 
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