That new GNOME menu

thomasvk · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 597

The ebuild is bad, see also the comments at the bugzilla page. Just install the deps and then compile it yourself (./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install).

Cobo · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

Sorry for not having read the bugzilla comments. With USE="-sandbox" I could finally build it.

I've followed all the steps from the Gentopia's NetworkManager guide, but I haven't been able to see the panel yet. When I start Gnome (2.14.2) a dialog box appears saying something like (translation from Spanish, sorry): "Network Manager miniapplication couldn't find some necessary resources. Unable to continue".

I'm trying to fix it, but can't guess what it can be.

Thanks for everything!

thomasvk · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 597

I had that too and the solution was VERY simple. In a terminal do as root:

Cobo · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

Oh man... THANKS! Now I got it working

. It's beautiful... I love it.

Now I'm digging deeply in the Ubuntu forum thread to see more capabilities. They seem to be doing a great work with patches and those things.

Once again, thanks!

[EDIT]By the way... Anyone knows where to get the Metacity and GTK2 theme SLED10 uses?

maxima · Apprentice Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 150

Cobo · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

Tekel · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

I jsut emerged SLAB form the gentopia overlay and It appears that the More Applicaitons button does noting ?? Anyone know how to debug/fix this.

suck_ma_penguin · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 180

That slab ebuild has errors, which i forgot to file a bug about. Open configuration manager, then go to desktop -> gnome -> applications -> Main Menu and edit the keys that you need. They seem to get registered to the temporary build dir, not to the final path.

Tekel · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject:

Ahh ok That seems to have fixed the problem thanks

tchak · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

Snif

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A good idea, but why it have to be mono?...
Thank you Novell for destroing Gnome...
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suck_ma_penguin · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 180

What's wrong with Mono? There are loads of great Mono apps which I use every day without a hitch.

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perplx · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Montréal, QC

There's a new ebuild on the bugzilla page:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140027

It compiled and installed fine. The only wierdness is that breaks when gtk-doc isn't installed, even though it has a "doc" USE flag which is disabled. It also requires NetworkManager, which you can get from Gentopia. It doesn't work (for me, on amd64), but it installs fine and satisfies the dependency.

It did take a couple of weeks, but now I have my pimped-out main-menu! You guys rock!
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Priyantha Bleeker · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Amsterdam

Sorry about the bad ebuild

Luckaly there is now an better one

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nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

I'm working on modifying the ebuild so that:

1) autogen.sh doesn't run configure, and gnome_src_compile does
2) Network manager isn't required

Unfortunately gtk-doc is required. Unless someone can gurantee that if I were to patch the check out of the configure.in, I can't make gtk-doc not a depend.

Edit: --disable-NetworkManager has disappeared it seems. Anyone know anything about that?

smn · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject:

hi,
i installed slab with the bugzilla ebuild and it worked fine, but i dont have any items in the menu. In "Favorite Applications" i only have the home folder and evolution, "Recently Used Apps" is totaly empty

how do i get it to update and put the apps im using in there?

edit: ok, right-click and add to favorites in control-center does the trick.

btw does someone know how i can modify the links slab is using, some applications (like amarok) dont seem to start.

perplx · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Montréal, QC

1ino1eum_4the_win · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 92

graphic23 · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:07 am Post subject:

1ino1eum_4the_win · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 92

well I appreciate, but no thank you.
I am with gentoo and I used some overlays to install the menu, I prefer not to use some other tricks to run the menu. I'll wait unti there is a good ebuild.
the menu is still pretty usefull, even whitout recent apps.
Thanks again anyway :wink:

graphic23 · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject:

EmmEff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 197

Ok, I read and followed everything in this thread, got slab built and installed...

Now where is it? How do I see the menu the way the screenshots show? I see a single menu item "Control Panel" or "Control Center" and it has two entries- one for accessibility and one for desktop background. Where is the rest of it?

tchak · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

LeGars · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

I wrote a little how-to helping slab install.
It's not perfect - still NetworkManager - but it works

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-487933.html

So it can help