source: gnome/core/gnome-applets.xml@ 0a7c3921

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  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-applets/&gnome-version;/gnome-applets-&gnome-applets-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/gnome-applets/&gnome-version;/gnome-applets-&gnome-applets-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-md5sum        "41aa44df2b0477594e59f59245c7d052">
  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-size          "5.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-buildsize     "103 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-applets-time          "0.9 SBU">
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<sect1 id="gnome-applets" xreflabel="GNOME Applets-&gnome-applets-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gnome-applets.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">gnome-applets-&gnome-applets-version;.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">gnome-applets</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GNOME Applets-&gnome-applets-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnome-applets">
    <primary sortas="a-GNOME-Applets">GNOME Applets</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GNOME Applets</title>

    <para>The <application>GNOME Applets</application> package contains
    small applications which generally run in the background and display
    their output to the <application>GNOME</application> panel.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnome-applets-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnome-applets-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gnome-applets-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gnome-applets-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gnome-applets-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gnome-applets-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNOME Applets Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gail"/>,
    <xref linkend="gnome-panel"/>, and
    <xref linkend="libxklavier"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libgtop"/>,
    <xref linkend="gst-plugins"/>,
    <xref linkend="hal"/>,
    <xref linkend="gucharmap"/>,
    <xref linkend="system-tools-backends"/>,
    <xref linkend="docbook-utils"/>,
    <ulink
    url="http://club.pep.ne.jp/~ishioka/Software/Linux/libapm-e.html">libapm</ulink>,
    and <ulink
    url="http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/libnotify/libnotify-0.2.2.tar.gz">
    libnotify-0.2.2</ulink></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnome-applets"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GNOME Applets</title>

    <para>Install <application>GNOME Applets</application> by
    running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
            --libexecdir=`pkg-config \
            --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/lib/gnome-applets \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib \
            --sysconfdir=&gnome-etc-dir; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
make -C man install-man</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix
    ORBit-2.0`/lib/gnome-applets</parameter>: This switch puts libexec files
    in <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/gnome-applets</filename>
    instead of
    <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/libexec</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/var/lib</parameter>: This switch
    puts <application>ScrollKeeper</application> files in
    <filename class="directory">/var/lib/scrollkeeper</filename> instead of
    <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--sysconfdir=&gnome-etc-dir;</parameter>: This switch puts
    configuration files in <filename class="directory">&gnome-etc-dir;</filename>
    instead of <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/etc</filename>.</para>

    <para><command>make -C man install-man</command>: This installs the man-pages
    that are not installed during <command>make install</command>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>cpufreq-selector and gswitchit-plugins-capplet</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/{,schemas}apps/{too
        many to list} and the following subdirectories of $GNOME_PREFIX/:
        include/libgswitchit,
        lib/gnome-applets,
        share/{gnome-applets, {gnome/help,omf}/{too many to list},
        pixmaps/{accessx-status-applet, cpufreq-applet, stickynotes}, and
        xmodmap}</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>