Hello,
Just read at the gnome website about the cross-desktop MIME-type system.
"As with GNOME 2.6, you must define the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable to the path at which your MIME database is installed, for instance <prefix>/share."
Now I thought that things like this need to be handled, and probably the best would be to do such initial settings in the startup scripts which are starting X / GNOME.
However I'm not an experienced Linux / GNOME user and have no idea what else needs to be in such a script. Do I start any of the daemons, or is it just enough to start the GNOME window manager?
You get the picture, what I'm really looking for is a package with gnome-start-scripts in the style like the X startup-scripts to enable the start from the shell (.sh) script and to enable starting from explorer (.bat) windows shell via double click without ever opening a Cygwin shell. "Cygwin? What is this good for? Wanna run GNOME!"
Did you look at the BLFS book? From what I can tell, it looks like they just add "exec metacity" and "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and run startx. The entries for shared-mime-info and gnome-mime-data don't mention setting any environment variables. But then again, I've never tried, so I wouldn't know for sure.
BTW, any luck with libbonobo/GConf/VFS? Can we proceed with the existing ORBit2 port until we make sure that the changes we're making are correct? And BTW, I have a number of packages stalled in ITP from 29 Sept (in 2 emails); apparently once again I've struck on a lack of interest for these (admittedly not fascinating but) necessary GNOME prereqs.
I'll be busy now until next week; I'm uprading computers after the weekend and hope to be up and running sometime Monday or so. I plan to catch up on everything then ASAP, and in the meantime I hope you manage to get your packages figured out. We still have a LOT of work to do.
Yaakov
