GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614957
Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Building GNOME instructions inaccurate
Last modified: 2010-04-28 11:26:30 UTC
In the JHBuild manual, Frequently Asked Questions, Building GNOME instructions are inaccurate. - ~/.xsession doesn't work for Fedora, and possibly other distributions. - As GNOME builds dbus, a system dbus is needed to start applications. - Starting a JHBuild hald is not necessary.
Created attachment 158038 [details] [review] Add section JHBuild and GNOME, remove FAQ Building GNOME Patch corrects the documentation. The proposed documentation changes may not be perfect, but I believe they are an improvement over the existing documentation and work towards helping people run their JHBuild GNOME. I don't like a FAQ section in a manual. I will be looking at phasing that out.
Thanks a lot, I pushed your commit.
Created attachment 158931 [details] [review] Remove the use of system D-Bus and ConsoleKit in Manual. As I learnt from Bug 581515, try to use the system (distro provided) DeviceKit, ConsoleKit, PolKit, PackageKit etc. It is tricky to run your own GNOME sandbox when GNOME is tightly coupled with the system services/daemons. This patch is to be applied in addition to Attachment 158038 [details].
Created attachment 158939 [details] [review] Remove the use of system D-Bus and ConsoleKit in Manual. Correction to attachment 158931 [details] [review] softlink for /var/run/dbus only, not /var/run.
Thanks, pushed. commit d038e01eaf1f8f30f94e7bc49b8d61c330aac685 Author: Craig Keogh <cskeogh@adam.com.au> Date: Sat Apr 17 10:09:54 2010 +0930 Remove the use of system D-Bus and ConsoleKit in Manual. (GNOME bug 614957)