awn 0.4.0-rc1

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luciano · Post by **luciano** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:17 am

Has anyone managed to install avant window navigator 0.4.0-rc1? It looks pretty slick.

It's available from launchpad, and there is a development ebuild in the desktop-effects overlay, but I'm having trouble building one of the dependencies (libdesktop-agnostic). Get an error about a missing Gdk-2.0.gir, which I think is only in GTK+-2.20 (somehow related to gobject-introspection). It's really doing my head in ...

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:08 pm

awesome !

I'll probably try this out later ...

I didn't now development had already progressed that far

na641 · Post by **na641** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:44 am

you can find ebuilds in the Kist-Overlay

na641 · Post by **na641** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:12 am

everything compiles fine from the overlay, however note that desktop-agnostic will fail to build with vala 0.8.0. you should mask that version and go with 0.7.10

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:53 pm

na641 wrote:you can find ebuilds in the Kist-Overlay

thanks !

no avant-window-navigator-extras ?

edit:

any ideas what to do with the following error-message:

avant-window-navigator

(avant-window-navigator:24243): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_list: assertion `value != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: No panels to create! You might want to try running `killall gconfd-2`.
aborting...

for me awn doesn't even show up

luciano · Post by **luciano** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:42 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote:
edit:

any ideas what to do with the following error-message:
avant-window-navigator

(avant-window-navigator:24243): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_list: assertion `value != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: No panels to create! You might want to try running `killall gconfd-2`.
aborting...
for me awn doesn't even show up

I'm having the same problem here.

Thanks for overlay btw.

luciano · Post by **luciano** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:42 pm

Hmm I just managed to build the development version from desktop-effects by

emerge -1 gtk-doc
emerge --nodeps =gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator-9999

And I get the same error messages. I think I will file a bug report for this.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gentoo/+bug/555963

na641 · Post by **na641** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:42 pm

i'm getting the same error, i just assumed it was because im running xfce and not gnome

Garrappachc · Post by **Garrappachc** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:10 pm

I've recently re-installed gentoo (during the weekend). Before that I used to use gnome-2.30 form gnome overlay. Avant-window-navigator-0·4_r1 comiled and worked fine. Now, (I compiled gnome-2.28) it doesn't even compile. I don't know, but it's just rc version. I'll be keeping that ebuild up-to-date, so check it from time to time.

luciano · Post by **luciano** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:49 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I hope someone can figure out how to make this work. It seems this is working fine for people who are using binaries for ubuntu.

@Garrappachc : I have the stable gnome 2.26 from the main repo, and it compiles fine. If you update the ebuild, do let us know!

luciano · Post by **luciano** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:24 am

It seems that a crucial component of awn is in the awn extras package. I merged the dev version and it seems this is now working. This is, to my best recollection, how I managed to get it all working:

1. Install the dependencies from kist repo, like so:

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layman -o http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/kist-overlay/portage/layman-kist.xml -a kist-overlay
emerge --onlydeps =gnome-extras/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0_rc1

2. Build prequisite is gtk-doc, although the USE flag doesn't seem to work in the desktop-effects ebuild. You can remove after you have built it.

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emerge -1 gtk-doc[/code

]
3. Install the unstable versions from desktop-effects:

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 layman -a desktop-effects
emerge --nodeps =gnome-extras/avant-window-navigator-9999
emerge =gnome-extras/avant-window-navigator-extras-9999

(optionally layman -d desktop-effects kist-overlay)

And that should do the trick. You MUST install the deps from the kist repo first, because the one in desktop-effects don't build. Also, as mentioned before, you will need to use vala-0.7.10, as there seems to be problem with 0.8.0.

I'm not entirely sure about the USE flags, as I've been changing them all the time. This is what I have at the moment:

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=gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator-9999 vala gconf
=gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator-extras-9999 vala
#x11-libs/desktop-agnostic gnome-vfs
#dev-libs/gir-repository gconf

(yes the last two are commented out - not sure if I should turn them on. May try rebuilding them and will let you know what happens).

KEYWORDS:

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gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator **
gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator-extras **
x11-libs/desktop-agnostic
=dev-libs/gir-repository-0.6.5
=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-0.6.9
# There is a bug which is preventing awn-live from compiling with 0.8
=dev-lang/vala-0.7.10

Hope that helps. You will also need to unmask some stuff.

Finally, if someone would be kind enough to put together a awn-extras ebuild, that would be great. Or even better, if it could be included in the mainline or if desktop-effects could be fixed (I think libagnostic-desktop package is broken ...), give us a proper avant-window-navigator-0.4.0_rc1 avant-window-navigator-extras-0.4.0_rc1 package!

Garrappachc · Post by **Garrappachc** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:56 am

So, I added avant-window-navigator-9999 to my overlay and fixed several things. Tell me if it works on your computers and how it works.
http://code.google.com/p/kist/source/br ... nome-extra

If you have "extras" flag not disabled then you'll have avant-window-navigator automatically installed as well.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:03 pm

works like a charm !

thanks a lot luciano & Garrappachc !

p1c2u · Post by **p1c2u** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 4:34 pm

I've installed it a week ago and created video when testing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0P4rrrzcnU

It looks very nice for me.

Garrappachc · Post by **Garrappachc** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:01 pm

Yeah, it does, but many people (including me) have a problem with it.

P.S. Where did you get ebuild from? Did you have a problem with awn.so.0 lib?

p1c2u · Post by **p1c2u** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:04 pm

I 've done it myself. U can get it in my overlay (sig link). Like I said I use it for a week and don't have any problems. If u have problems with desktop-diagnostic check out my ebuild in bugs [bug=311933]desktop-agnostic[/bug] (available in my overlay too). It has patch with various fixes to work.

na641 · Post by **na641** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:25 pm

the build seems to be failing on the patch. not sure why

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue May 25, 2010 10:58 am

no need for the patch anymore ... :

x11-libs/libdesktop-agnostic/libdesktop-agnostic-9999-r1.ebuild wrote: # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

EAPI="3"

PYTHON_DEPEND=2:2.4

inherit python bzr

EBZR_REPO_URI="lp:libdesktop-agnostic"

DESCRIPTION="A desktop-agnostic library for GLib-based projects"
HOMEPAGE="https://launchpad.net/libdesktop-agnostic"
SRC_URI=""

LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
IUSE="debug gnome gnome-vfs xfce"

RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.16
>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.12
>=dev-libs/gir-repository-0.6.3
>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-0.6.3
>=dev-python/pygobject-2.12
>=dev-python/pygtk-2.12
gnome? ( gnome-base/gnome-desktop )
gnome-vfs? ( gnome-base/gnome-vfs:2 )
xfce? ( xfce-base/thunar:1 )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-0.6.3
>=dev-lang/vala-0.7.0"
RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

#src_prepare() {
# # See https://bugs.launchpad.net/libdesktop-a ... bug/519831
# epatch ${FILESDIR}/desktop-agnostic-various-fixes.patch
#}

src_configure() {
local cfg="keyfile" de="glib" vfs="gio" myconf=""
if use gnome; then
cfg="gconf"
de="gnome,${de}"
fi
if use gnome-vfs; then
vfs="gnome-vfs,${vfs}"
fi
if use xfce; then
vfs="thunar-vfs,${vfs}"
fi
if use debug; then
myconf="${myconf} --enable-debug"
fi
./waf configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--config-backends=${cfg} \
--desktop-entry-backends=${de} \
--vfs-backends=${vfs} \
${myconf} || die "configure failed"
}

src_compile() {
./waf || die "compile failed"
}

src_install() {
./waf install --destdir="${D}" || die "install failed"
}

gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator/avant-window-navigator-9999-r1.ebuild wrote:# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

EAPI="2"
EBZR_REPO_URI="lp:awn"
NEED_PYTHON="2.5"

inherit autotools bzr gnome2 python

DESCRIPTION="Fully customizable dock for the Free desktop"
HOMEPAGE="https://launchpad.net/awn"
SRC_URI=""
LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0"

SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS=""
IUSE="doc gconf"

COMMON_DEPEND="
dev-libs/dbus-glib
>=dev-libs/glib-2.16.0
dev-python/pycairo
dev-python/pygtk:2
gnome-base/libgtop
>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.0
x11-libs/libX11
x11-libs/libXcomposite
x11-libs/libXext
x11-libs/libXrender
=x11-libs/libdesktop-agnostic-9999-r1[gnome]
>=x11-libs/libwnck-2.22
"

RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
dev-python/pyxdg
"
DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
|| ( >=dev-lang/vala-0.7.9 ~dev-lang/vala-0.7.7 )
>=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.4
>=dev-util/intltool-0.35.5
dev-util/pkgconfig
x11-proto/compositeproto
x11-proto/renderproto
x11-proto/xextproto
x11-proto/xproto
gconf? ( gnome-base/gconf:2 )
"

pkg_setup() {
G2CONF="${G2CONF}
$(use_enable doc gtk-doc)
$(use_enable gconf schemas-install)
--disable-static
--disable-pymod-checks
--enable-extra-version=-gentoo-desktop-effects
"
}

src_unpack() {
bzr_src_unpack
}

src_prepare() {
gtkdocize || die "gtkdocize failed"
intltoolize --copy --force || die "intltoolize failed"
eautoreconf || die "eautoreconf failed"
# disable pyc compiling - from gnome-python-common.eclass
if [[ -f py-compile ]]; then
rm py-compile
ln -s $(type -P true) py-compile
fi
}

pkg_postinst() {
gnome2_pkg_postinst
python_mod_optimize $(python_get_sitedir)/awn
}

pkg_postrm() {
gnome2_pkg_postrm
python_mod_cleanup awn
}

crazymonito · Post by **crazymonito** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:55 am

So, did anyone ever get this working? I managed to get it to compile by removing the patch in libdesktop-agnostic-9999-r1, but when I start AWN, it gives me the following error:

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(avant-window-navigator:6003): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_list: assertion `value != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: No panels to create! 
**  Please check that the gconf-schema is installed.
**  You might also try to run `killall gconfd-2`.
aborting...
Aborted

I couldn't find gconf-scheme in portage and 'killall gconfd-2' doesn't do anything. Is anyone else seeing this?

na641 · Post by **na641** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:30 am

crazymonito wrote:So, did anyone ever get this working? I managed to get it to compile by removing the patch in libdesktop-agnostic-9999-r1, but when I start AWN, it gives me the following error:
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(avant-window-navigator:6003): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_list: assertion `value != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: No panels to create! 
**  Please check that the gconf-schema is installed.
**  You might also try to run `killall gconfd-2`.
aborting...
Aborted
I couldn't find gconf-scheme in portage and 'killall gconfd-2' doesn't do anything. Is anyone else seeing this?

what DE are you running? Gnome or what?

crazymonito · Post by **crazymonito** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:26 am

I'm running Gnome with Compiz as the WM.

512es · Post by **512es** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:21 pm

Авант не видит gconf-schema потому что libdesktop-agnostic собрана со флагом gconf а аватн с -gconf.
Можно собрать оба пакета толи С gconf толи БЕЗ

Кстати, всем рекомендую x11-libs/libdesktop-agnostic-0.3.92 из официальных репов (пакет от 13.03.2011) тогда и gir-repository не нужен

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:37 pm

512es wrote:Авант не видит gconf-schema потому что libdesktop-agnostic собрана со флагом gconf а аватн с -gconf.
Можно собрать оба пакета толи С gconf толи БЕЗ

Кстати, всем рекомендую x11-libs/libdesktop-agnostic-0.3.92 из официальных репов (пакет от 13.03.2011) тогда и gir-repository не нужен

good to know thanks !
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Cerinthus · Post by **Cerinthus** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:06 pm

crazymonito wrote:So, did anyone ever get this working? I managed to get it to compile by removing the patch in libdesktop-agnostic-9999-r1, but when I start AWN, it gives me the following error:
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(avant-window-navigator:6003): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_list: assertion `value != NULL' failed

** ERROR **: No panels to create! 
**  Please check that the gconf-schema is installed.
**  You might also try to run `killall gconfd-2`.
aborting...
Aborted
I couldn't find gconf-scheme in portage and 'killall gconfd-2' doesn't do anything. Is anyone else seeing this?

Sorry to raise the dead, but I just ran into exactly this problem, so maybe the next guy can avoid the aggravation.

Fortunately, the fix turned out to be really easy. The easiest route is just to add "-gconf" to make.conf, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason, or if your overlay doesn't support it, you can also edit /etc/xdg/libdesktop-agnostic/desktop-agnostic.ini .

Replace

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config = gconf

with

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config = keyfile

awn 0.4.0-rc1

awn 0.4.0-rc1

SOLVED! (well kind of)