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I am trying to build a mini desktop on a uclibc-based system. At |
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first, I tried to get XFCE running but got into serious GTK+ issues, I |
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broke ncurses during an update and had to start over. With this in |
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mind, I separated the plan into three phases, get the smallest desktop |
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with a basic set of applications, add applications and build other |
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desktop environments (neither GNOME nor KDE, as they are very big). |
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Basic applications: |
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- window manager: IceWM, patched to removed dependency on iconv |
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(bug #101032) |
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- X11 terminal: patched rxvt and rxvt-uncode (bug #104043) |
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- text editor: nedit |
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- PDF reader: patched xpdf (dependency reduction, TrueType |
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auto-hinting, experimental shared library reducing dramatically the |
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binary size (tbz2 went from 2594Kb to 650Kb)) |
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- IRC client: nebula and BitchX (~x86, no RPATHS please) |
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- file manager: patched xplore (bug #106132) |
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- web browser |
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- music player |
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The web browser issue is pretty interesting. Dillo heavily depends on |
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the system iconv, something a Gentoo stable uclibc 0.9.27 does not |
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provide. On the other hand, Gecko has its own iconv code but almost |
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all Mozilla-based applications depend on GTK+. I would like to have |
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minimo. |
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As for the music player, I cannot use neither beep-media-player nor |
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xmms, as they depend on GTK+. GTK+ 1.2 "hello world" programs I found |
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in the GTK+ tutorial simply segfault. Cursed GNU's Not Unix Image |
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Manipulation Program Tool Kit Plus. |
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Do you have alternative program suggestions? How can I fix GTK? |
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