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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" modeGNOME Shell to support a "classic" modePosted Nov 22, 2012 14:38 UTC (Thu) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019)In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by ovitters Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode
How is this done? I see nothing in the documentation explaining this.
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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 17:31 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 19:26 UTC (Thu) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]
Yea, I found that. I don't see any docs on how to do parallel installs of GNOME.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 20:13 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
you configure jhbuild to install into a directory tree that is non standard. In the examples in the docs that is /opt/gnome/
jhbuild when used to run gnome-session sets up shell environment variables so gnome components use the files installed via the jhbuild process.
If you want to look at specific environment changes you run:
-jef
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 0:12 UTC (Fri) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]
DOH! How did I miss that? Thanks.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 20:55 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
Be warned that if you go the jhbuild route, it'll suck up loads of time before you actually get anything working. The "GNOME OS" bit is not to replace a distro, but to ensure that "GNOME" behaves like an OS.
Or in other words: ensure that you can easily join development. Be able to provide people with the latest GNOME release as a VM, including all the various system dependencies which are needed by GNOME. Be able to fully test the whole "OS" (meaning GNOME but also the system dependencies).
To answer your question:
What I forgot is that this will still share the "dot" files. We've put a lot of work into supporting the XDG directories (~/.config), which can be changed using environment variables. Quite envious of KDE here (they solved that years ago).
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 0:39 UTC (Fri) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]
Ok. I've used a tool similar to this in the past when I needed newer GNOME libs so I could build the latest Anjuta on RHEL 4.5. Forget the name of the tool at the moment. I believe it is no longer maintained.
So what is keeping everyone who desires to, from running GNOME 2.x & 3.x side by side?
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