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GNOME Desktop-2.2.2

Introduction to GNOME Desktop

The GNOME Desktop package contains GNOME's .desktop files, the gnome-about program, man pages and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.

Package information

GNOME Desktop dependencies

Required

libgnomeui-2.2.2 and ScrollKeeper-0.3.12

Installation of GNOME Desktop

Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

The GNOME Desktop package contains libgnome-desktop-2 libraries and gnome-about.

Description

libgnome-desktop libraries

libgnome-desktop libraries contain API's being tested for inclusion in libgnome or libgnomeui.

gnome-about

gnome-about produces the about screen.

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