[gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

[Theo Chatzimichos]

On Monday 08 March 2010 03:17:57 Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 16:52:50 Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> > Hello
> > I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus.
> > The result can be found in kde-crazy overlay (not in layman) [1]
> > I splitted every desktop/ folder i found. The following issues raised
> > though: 1) I didn't touch the hardened and selinux directories although
> > they do contain a desktop folder. Should I proceed in those or not?
> > 2) Some mips/ subdirs don't point to targets/, so I guess the split went
> > to /dev/null. So I asked ssuominen who suggested to skip the mips
> > directories, and I reverted. (Edit: ssuominen just committed changes in
> > mips profiles in tree).
> > 3) There were no desktop dirs for bsd/prefix etc.
> > 4) Also take a look at how I splitted the USE flags (with ssuominen's and
> > yngwin's suggestions) and propose your corrections plz. For example, I
> > don't really like the firefox flag in kde, and I'd suggest a -firefox
> > (ugly, I know) in kde's make.defaults
> >
> > Please Please Please Please Please TEST / REVIEW (especially the arch
> > teams plz)
> >
> > I'll give three days max for the suggestions here etc, and then I'll
> > proceed in creating the news item. So I guess it will be committed in a
> > week max. Thanks
> >
> > [1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-crazy.git;a=summary
>
> (I doubt that anyone tested it)
>
> I attached the news item, please review. Meanwhile, I'll create docs
> patches.
>
> Also, I'm CCing hardened as my No.1 question was not answered. Please do.
> Thanks
>
> PS. Please test it

News item commited, also added note to KDE guide and proposed note for GNOME 
FAQ. I didn't find anything relevant about profiles in xorg guide so I skipped 
it. I'll commit this change this Friday, 26 March

@ Docs Team, do you want a handbook patch? I don't think it is needed, but 
whatever you say
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Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
Gentoo KDE/Qt Teams
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