On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:16:19 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>
said:

> PS:
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >> e puts those .desktop files there for its filemanager. they are 
> >> shortcuts/links
> >> to devices and/or bits of the filesystem. yes - nautilus will show 
> >> them and
> >> display them oddly. to be honest, this doesn't bother us, because you 
> >> are
> >> expected to be using e, not nautilus. :)
> 
> I'm not unexperienced and even if it was easy to solve, I wonder that 
> e17 linked to partitions that are not mounted by fstab ;). For some 
> reason I edited my fstab the way it is ;).

it does sound like you're new to unix. e17 doesnt link to anywhere. it gets
installed like all other software - the exact same way, following the linux
FHS.

> The default behaviour of e17 doesn't fit to the needs of unexperienced 
> and in addition not to the needs of experienced users.

it fits into standards followed by software for linux/unix for many years. many
years. e doesnt require you install it somewhere - its entirely determinable at
compile time. and it will follow your requests. you need to getmoe in touch
with your filesystem and know where things are installed :) compiling software
isnt for the novice. you have chosen to take on the task - but remember it
comes with the requirement to learn and also know what you are doing :)
expecting to compile something and install it in the default place all compiled
software goes, and not know where that place is, how it fits into $PATH,
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ld.so.conf, an other relevant XDG/fdo dirs
(/usr/share/applications, /usr/share/xsessions ... etc.) will mean you need to
learn about these. we didn't come up with the standards and we didnt configure
ubuntu or write other apps. these apps (like gdm) explicitly like to EXCLUDE
extra compiled desktops as it wont look in /usr/local/share/xsessions - which is
where ALL .desktops for extra DE's should/will go if compiled and installed with
defaults. :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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