source: gnome/platform/gnome-control-center.xml@ 91318eb

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-download-http
           "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-control-center/&gnome-43;/gnome-control-center-&gnome-control-center-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-download-ftp
           "&gnome-download-ftp;/gnome-control-center/&gnome-43;/gnome-control-center-&gnome-control-center-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-md5sum        "820ce9df303b8beeb7257457cdca16b0">
  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-size          "5.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-buildsize     "145 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY gnome-control-center-time          "0.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="gnome-control-center" xreflabel="gnome-control-center-&gnome-control-center-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gnome-control-center.html"?>


  <title>gnome-control-center-&gnome-control-center-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnome-control-center">
    <primary sortas="a-gnome-control-center">gnome-control-center</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      The <application>GNOME Control Center</application> package contains the
      <application>GNOME</application> settings manager.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNOME Control Center Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="accountsservice"/>,
      <xref linkend="colord-gtk"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnome-online-accounts"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnome-settings-daemon"/>,
      <xref linkend="gsound"/>,
      <xref linkend="libgtop"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpwquality"/>,
      <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
      <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/>, and
      <xref linkend="udisks2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="cups"/> and
      <xref linkend="samba"/> (for the Printers Panel),
      <xref linkend="gnome-bluetooth"/>,
      <xref linkend="ibus"/>,
      <xref linkend="libadwaita1"/>, and
      <xref linkend="ModemManager"/> and
      <xref linkend="libnma"/> (for the Network Panel)
      <!-- gnome-remote-desktop can be used in the Sharing panel. -->
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <command>Xvfb</command> (from
      <xref linkend='xorg-server'/> or
      <xref role='nodep' linkend='xwayland'/>) and
      <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/> (both for tests)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4"
                revision="sysv">Recommended (Runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended" revision="sysv">
      <xref linkend="blocaled" role="runtime"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="cups-pk-helper"/> (Printers panel),
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="gnome-color-manager"/> (Color panel),
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="gnome-shell"/> (Applications panel), and
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="sound-theme-freedesktop"/> (Additional Sound Effects in Sound panel)
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        Recommended dependencies are not strictly required for
        this package to build and function, but you may not get
        expected results at runtime if you don't install them.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnome-control-center"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

    <note>
      <para>
        If upgrading from gnome-control-center-41 or earlier, remove a
        desktop file that would result in duplicated menu entries. As the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -f /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop</userinput></screen>

    </note>

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

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <!-- for GTK_A11Y=none see upstream issue #2300.  The test still fails
         w/o it in 43.4.1. -->
    <para>
      To test the results, issue:
      <command>GTK_A11Y=none ninja test</command>. Note that
      you must have the <application>python-dbusmock</application> module
      installed in order for the tests to complete successfully.
    </para>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>-Dibus=false</option>: Use this switch if you have not
      installed the recommended <application>IBus</application> dependency.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gnome-control-center
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/gnome-control-center,
          /usr/share/pixmaps/faces, and
          /usr/share/sounds/gnome
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="gnome-control-center-prog">
        <term><command>gnome-control-center</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a graphical user interface used to configure various
            aspects of <application>GNOME</application>
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gnome-control-center">gnome-control-center</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>