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dtw

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adesklet plugin standard

i want to work on the adesklet install standards before we adopt any more plugin pkgs in AUR

Dusty

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

i want to work on the adesklet install standards before we adopt any more plugin pkgs in AUR

Hey dibble, how many standards are there going to be? Should we make a special section of the wiki, or better yet, the official documentation (standards shouldn't be editable!) for the groups of standards?

Dusty

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dtw

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

Very funny!

Dunno if you have every used adesklets but it is the scrapiest peice of software in the world "cp this here, link that there, chown this" etc - it's crap - with a bit of discussion we can standardize the adesklet plugin PKGBUILDs so they are all easier to install and integrate.

Amusingly it's really an upstream issue that we'll have to address here - don't tell lanrat

Dusty

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

er... I wasn't joking. I'm thinking that with CVS, SVN, Java, and general standards being created, maybe we should have an official spot for them. Although that requires an official documentor...

Dusty

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dtw

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

CAAAACCCCCTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS!

CyberTron just submitted a great cvs PKGBUILD to the AUR

Dusty and Dibble - thread-jackers extraordinaire!

Dusty

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

yeah...

Er... I just realized something. Me, DP, dibble, phrakture, Sarah31, Mr. Green... all the common thread hijackers... have been made moderators, forum advisors or developers in our history.

Ergo, Thread Hijacking is a path to greatness!

Dusty

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T-Dawg

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

would you like me to hijack too?

:twisted:

Dusty

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

would you like me to hijack too?

:twisted:

You got in soley on merit. Go figure.

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Cam

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

For this very reason, I don't use pacman to install individual adesklets

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dtw

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

but do you think it would be good to develop a better way of installing them with pacman?

droog

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

Here are some quotes from an adesklet developer on distros packaging them, I found these in the forums over there when i was making packages some time ago, ended up just putting the desklets in my /home/.config dir and never tried this.

things like desklets are somewhat in a grey zone, but according to the general spirit, it should probably be kept together in a single directory like /usr/share/adesklets or something similar. Symlinking to it is only a natural approach from there.

You could very well install desklets in any accessible place of your system, then just populate appropriately your home. Cruedly, on a GNU system, this would look like,:
Code:

cd $HOME/final/path/to/desklet
find /path/to/desklet -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 | sed 's/.*/(.*)/& 1/' | xargs --max-lines=1 ln -s

And nothing would prevent you to use your favorite package manager to install desklets with it

original post http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/forum/ … c.php?t=52

phrakture

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

yeah...

Er... I just realized something. Me, DP, dibble, phrakture, Sarah31, Mr. Green... all the common thread hijackers... have been made moderators, forum advisors or developers in our history.

Ergo, Thread Hijacking is a path to greatness!

Dusty

speaking of hijacking, check out http://phraktured.net/blog/ for linuxtag pictures!

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dtw

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Re: adesklet plugin standard

that was low, dude!