source: gnome/core/gnome-panel.xml@ 3724ba1

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-panel/&gnome-version;/gnome-panel-&gnome-panel-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/gnome-panel/&gnome-version;/gnome-panel-&gnome-panel-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-md5sum        "545348de234fa8222e328fa7f3a5ba71">
  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-size          "2.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-buildsize     "67 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-panel-time          "0.8 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gnome-panel" xreflabel="GNOME Panel-&gnome-panel-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gnome-panel.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GNOME Panel-&gnome-panel-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnome-panel">
    <primary sortas="a-GNOME-Panel">GNOME Panel</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The <application>GNOME Panel</application> package
    contains hooks to the menu sub-system and the applet sub-system.</para>

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

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gnome-desktop"/>,
    <xref linkend="libwnck"/>, and
    <xref linkend="gnome-menus"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="evolution-data-server"/>
    (required if you plan to install <xref linkend="evolution"/> or
    <xref linkend="ekiga"/>),
    <xref linkend="intltool"/>, and
    <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>

    <note>
      <para>The <application>libxml2</application>
      <application>Python</application> module must have been built during the
      installation of <application>libxml2</application> else the
      <application>GNOME Panel</application> build will fail.</para>
    </note>

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
            --sysconfdir=&gnome-etc-dir; \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib \
            --libexecdir=$(pkg-config \
                --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/gnome-panel \
            --mandir=$(pkg-config \
                --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/share/man &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</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gnome-prefix.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gnome-sysconfdir.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/scrollkeeper-dir.xml"/>

    <para><parameter>--libexecdir=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix
    ORBit-2.0)/lib/gnome-panel</parameter>: This parameter causes the libexec
    files to be installed in the preferred location of
    <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/gnome-panel</filename>
    instead of
    <filename class="directory">$GNOME_PREFIX/libexec</filename>.</para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gnome-mandir.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gnome-desktop-item-edit, gnome-panel and panel-test-applets</seg>
        <seg>libpanel-applet-2.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>The following subdirectories of <envar>$GNOME_PREFIX</envar>/:
        include/panel-2.0,
        lib/gnome-panel,
        share/{gnome/{help/{too many to list}, panel},
        gtk-doc/html/panel-applet, icons, idl/gnome-panel-2.0,
        omf/{too many too list}}</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="libpanel-applet-2">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpanel-applet-2.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>allow development of small applications (applets) which
          may be embedded in the panel.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-panel libpanel-applet-2">
            <primary sortas="c-libpanel-applet-2">libpanel-applet-2.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>