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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:00 -0400, Jim Ramsay wrote: |
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> I've run into it a few times now that fluxbox users running Gentoo |
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> wonder why they can't get icons to work in the fluxbox menus. The |
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> short answer is that 'imlib' is off by default in many profiles, |
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> including default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop and |
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> default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop |
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> I know that I could turn it on by default for fluxbox only using EAPI-1, |
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> but since it's a global USE flag, the profiles may be a better place. |
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> I think imlib is something most desktop users would want, since it lets |
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> them see all those pretty graphics. Comments? Concerns? |
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imlib is unmaintained/deprecated. So I don't think it makes sense to |
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push it by default to users using GNOME/KDE at least (because they have |
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better image loading libraries). |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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