is there a difference between slacke17 and e17 from slackbuilds.org?

Cultist · 01-04-2012, 12:04 AM

I've run into a few minor problems with Enlightenment from SBO (nothing major but a little irritating), and I was just wondering if anyone had tried using SlackE17. Does anyone know if there is any real difference between using this, as opposed to manually compiling and installing from slackbuilds.org? I would test but I don't want to mess up anything with my current Enlightenment install, so I thought I'd see if I could get any feedback from people who have already tried.

Thanks!

Cedrik · 01-04-2012, 07:40 AM

What are the minor problems ?

Cultist · 01-04-2012, 07:45 AM

just tiny things like the taskbar resizing itself to different sizes, huge margins in the file manager, screen lock disabled because of PIM modules missing (?), a couple other things I can't think of off hand. Nothing big.

altor31 · 01-04-2012, 03:30 PM

personally use slacke17 without any issue. The installation is safe, but I advice (I'm not sure that is the good verb) you to save your ~/.e before the installation.

Edit : there is the same issue with screen lock. According to README.E17 :
Lock screen doesn't work
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Yeah, it relies on PAM and Slackware doesn't use it. I don't plan to add PAM to
SlackE17. So avoid to use the E17 lock screen for now (it could REALLY lock
your screen) and use xlock or something similar instead.

gargamel · 01-04-2012, 04:24 PM

I have had good success with the Andrew Brouwers' scripts: http://slackadelic.com/~thrice/e17/.
The stuff from SlackBuilds.org and SlackE17 also used to work fine.

Note: Both approaches work just fine on pure Slackware64-13.37, but there were some "snags" on a system with multilib support, here. No trouble on 32-bit systems.

gargamel

ngc891 · 01-05-2012, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Cultist

I've run into a few minor problems with Enlightenment from SBO (nothing major but a little irritating), and I was just wondering if anyone had tried using SlackE17. Does anyone know if there is any real difference between using this, as opposed to manually compiling and installing from slackbuilds.org? I would test but I don't want to mess up anything with my current Enlightenment install, so I thought I'd see if I could get any feedback from people who have already tried.

Thanks!

You have more packages with SlackE17, including modules for e17. Elementary should be a must have because most of other e17-related software are using it. There are the html API docs of libraries if you want to develop. The packages are always compiled against a clean install of Slackware or Slackware64 (I have a spare computer only for this) which avoid a lot of issues against unwanted dependencies at compile time like multi-libs stuff.

e17 is still moving fast and picking a good revision in SVN is not always easy. It took me one week last time.