does anyone know about how to install dropline gnome - its on a iso, in slackware 10.2?

do i need to recompile anything etc?

Dropline Gnome has its own installer, so just download that, and it will take care of downloading and installing. Hm, I just went to their site and it seems they have an iso for their newest version In any case, no compilation needed.

However, one word of caution: Dropline can be difficult to uninstall; it least it used to be. (Someone please correct me if they have made things easier the last year.) So if you just want to try it out, you might get into trouble if you feel that you want to get rid of it later on.

Quite frankly, try gware and freerock first. If you don't like them, go to dropline. It always seemed like I had little, annoying issues with gware and freerock (fonts, icons... little annoying stuff). Once you put dropline in, you'll never look elsewhere again - I'm very happy with 2.12.1 dropline gnome.

I wouldn't bother with freerock or gware, since their policies of "don't replace any packages" provides you with a crippled gnome. Dropline is the only slackware gnome where everything works as the gnome developers intended.

Dropline GNOME may be installed by simply installing the Dropline Installer from the following page:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...l.tgz?download

Just use "installpkg dropline-installer-2.12.1-i686-1dl.tgz", then run "dropline-installer" as root and use the menus to begin the installation procedure. Note: This release is intended for Slackware 10.2.

Bebo: In regards to uninstallation, it's true that it may be a bit of effort to uninstall Dropline GNOME, but the same can be said of all of the third-party GNOME desktops for Slackware. Dropline does replace X11, Shadow (for PAM functionality) and a few extra support libraries more than the other GNOME desktops, but we feel that it ultimately provides for a GNOME desktop that works extremely well. If you install any of the third-party GNOME desktops (Dropline, FRG, Gware, etc.) I would suggest a total reinstall instead of removal... That is, if you don't want to keep GNOME. However, most people don't turn back. They're all great desktops.

We've made a pretty significant attempt over the last year to limit the number of replacement packages. We've cut out several of them since taking over the project. We're also going to be posting a list soon, that contains all of the packages that are replaced upon installation.

zborg,

dropline is great. good job.

Thanks!