Bugzilla Bug 60282

Just to let you know, a new version of gdesklets was released eariler today
(version 0.30 see http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/ ), and an e-build would be
greatly appreacted. Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

A simple copy works perfectly.

I'm really not that happy with this version. Do you guys have any problems with
it? StarterBar won't work for me, and I've had to patch the source to get it
working (to create ~/.gdesklets/Sensors on first run).

Tell me all

new dependancy: dev-lang/swig
I'm unsure what version, but the latest of 1.3.21 works fine.

Allready got it, I'm really waiting for all of the desklets to be updated for
0.30.

it works well for me. Why not put it in portage as masked or as unstable.
Probably masked because the desklet ebuilds don't work that well and a lot of
the desklets are not ported yet.

Isn't this a dupe of bug 55617? It already has an ebuild.

No, .30pre and .30 are actually two different versions.

*** Bug 55617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

With the addition of the new builtin shell, aren't all the individual gdesklet
ebuilds now unnecessary?

Created an attachment (id=39370) [edit]
ebuild for gdesklets 0.30

Created an attachment (id=39371) [edit]
manifest to include gdesklets 0.30

Created an attachment (id=39372) [edit]
digest to gdesklets 0.30

new version of gdesklets came out today as mentioned, i wanted to try out
gdesklets for some time and made this quick set of files to give it a go. there
was also a new mythtv out today as well for those interested.

there are quite a few dep changes in this one and some added programs in rdeps,
here is where i grabbed the list of needed progs from:

http://fatboy.ucd.ie/gdesklets/

(excuse the double post on this, i dont see where to edit my previous comment.
also accidentally said gdesklets 0.30 was released today, i had mythtv on the
brain)

Created an attachment (id=39373) [edit]
accidentally left 0.26.0 in previous ebuild, changed here.

Created an attachment (id=39374) [edit]
changes by new ebuild reflected here.

Thanks for the 0.30 ebuild stuff any reason they are not in the main tree?

*** Bug 67240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

for some reason, it seems everything works ok when i manually install desklets
in ~/.gdesklets, but not through ebuilds. and the major problem is that when i
try to open the 'shell' it closes right away... (not the daemon though).

anyone knows this?

0.31 is out

*** Bug 70129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

We need to get gnome-python version 2.6 in before this can, it's unusable with
pygtk-2.4 + gnome-python 2.0

any chances the new version will fix my problem with the shell?

The new 0.31.1 is out! But Why is gdesklets not in the official portage tree
anymore?

*** Bug 70835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 71074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created an attachment (id=43875) [edit]
ebuild for gdesklets 0.31.1

Here is a revised ebuild for gdesklets 0.31.1

did the maintainer died?

#28: With a thought about him commenting here why there is no reason to add the
newer version of gdesklet to portage yet (#22) only 12 days ago I think he's
not dead at least. 

And stop doing that kind of comments (again #28). I have been in fourms and
alike were it has been many strange disscussions becouse of posts like yours
and people not been able to post for some time to confirm they are alive.

Created an attachment (id=44322) [edit]
gdesklets-core-0.31.1+dependencies(gnome-python-2.6.0+pyorbit-2.0.1+pygtk-2.4.0)

Everything you need to run gdesklets-core-0.31.1 properly, unpack in
$PORTAGE_OVERLAY.

I know the pyorbit and gnome-python ebuilds are duplicates but here's the
lazypack...

As I commented previously, we are waiting for the python maintainers to deal
with gnome-python and pyorbit updates. You can get my prelease tarball from 

http://dev.gentoo.org/~obz/gdesklets-0.3x-overlay.tar.gz

I apologise for the delay, but we're stuck until we can get the new bindings
in.

Thankyou. (yes I am still alive).

I'm glad to hear that ;) We'll wait then for the gnome-phyton ebuild. I'm
looking forward to having a recent gdesklets ebuild in portage.

i have installed gdesklets-0.31 from your ebuild, and it works with most
desklets though not all. The other problem is that it doesn't start
automatically when I launch gnome even though it seems recognized by
gnome-session. anyone has similar behaviour or does it work for you?

I found thius and came looking hoping there was already an ebuild under way for
this

gDesklets v0.32pre released! Posted By: chrisime Posted on Nov 28 2004 
A new pre-release of gDesklets has been released! Please test it and report
useful bugs. There's a known problem in libgtop which (hopefully) has been
fixed in CVS. Please don't post those problems in the forum; it's already
crowded with these.

PS to prior post I found this an interesting fact

[cut]
If you intend writing new desklets please don't use any Sensors! They are deprecated since v0.30 and won't work with version >= v0.40 which will be out either in March or April 2005. 
[cut]

So any desklet that uses sensors is only compatible with  <.30 versions of this
so the desklets will need to be masked on the versions they won't work on

No, it's clearly stated as versions >=0.40. 0.3x contains support for both
Controls AND Sensors.

Please only post information relevant to this bug in bugzilla, we'll deal with
0.40 when it comes.

*** Bug 73066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

"No, it's clearly stated as versions >=0.40. 0.3x contains support for both
Controls AND Sensors.
Please only post information relevant to this bug in bugzilla, we'll deal with
0.40 when it comes."
To me that was totally relavent maybe you can explain why it isn't to you?? "D
E P R E C A T E D....In dictionaries, deprecated is a term used to indicate a
pronunciation or usage that is acknowledged but discouraged. In computer
programming, a deprecated language entity is one that is tolerated or supported
but not recommended. For example, a number of elements and attributes are
deprecated in HTML 4.0, meaning that other means of accomplishing the task are
preferred."

I personally have seen a lot of software that has material in it that is
deprecated that is supposed to work that doesn't because to a lot of projects
deprecate means going away don't baother to test it.

0.3x versions use Sensors, Displays and Controls. 

This bug is purely about getting the version 0.3x of gDesklets in portage. Future speculation (fyi I understand the term "Deprecation" very well) is inappropriate _for this bug_, hence why it is unrelevant to our current concerns. We'll cross that when we come to it.

Thanks.

0.31.1 is in, and I'm still seeing no official word on 0.32, only the pre
release, which I won't add until it hits 0.32 official.

Thanks for everyone on this bug, gdesklets-core-0.32 is in CVS now.

Created an attachment (id=45966) [edit]
gDesklets 0.32

gDesklets 0.32 ebuild

Didn't I clearly comment that version 0.32 has been added to CVS? It's IN
PORTAGE.
Thanks everyone

*** Bug 74400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***