Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[Marv Boyes]

Hey, Charles-- if you're reading, is there any chance of seeing an 
xfce4-taskbar-plugin RPM on your 9.2 & 10 pages? No offense to Stephen, 
but we seem to be having a hard time firguring this one out. ;)


Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:57, Marv Boyes wrote:
> 
>>Stephen Kuhn wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 15:51, Marv Boyes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This looks exactly like what I've been wanting for my own setup. My 
>>>>trouble is that I've never been able to successfully compile and install 
>>>>anything (xfce-related or otherwise) from source on my Mandrake 9.2 
>>>>machine.
>>>>
>>>>I almost hate to have to ask-- but can anyone tell me _where_ I ought to 
>>>>unpack this tarball before trying to compile and install it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Having lived in the Mandrake world for the past two years, I know the
>>>feeling; I've had to manually upgrade my automake, autoconf, make,
>>>aclocal and the likes in order to compile progs properly; now that I'm
>>>on 10.0 OE it's a bit easier; but overall, what I do is I unpack and
>>>compile things under the /usr/src directory and then always use the
>>>settings:
>>>
>>>./configure --prefix=/usr
>>>
>>
>>So I'm guessing, based on what you've said here and what I've read on 
>>the Goodies page, that I'll want the xfce4-taskbar-plugin directory in 
>>/usr/src, and my command ought to look like this:
>>
>>./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
>>
>>No?
>>
>>Next question: assuming this utterly fails to work (I hate to be such a 
>>fatalist; but like I said, compiling & installing from source just 
>>doesn't work for me...), is there any easy way to clean up the mess left 
>>behind?
>>
>>Thanks much; you folks are the greatest.
>>
>>Marv
> 
> 
> Alright - after doing some spying on how Mandrake 10.0 OE put things
> hither thither and yon, I have to detract that simple set of
> instructions; I'm trying to work out what needs go where and then what
> options need to be passed to the configuration script(s); apparently,
> MDK in it's great vision, has put the binaries in /usr/bin, the libs in
> /usr/libs/xfce4 and the panel-plugins themselves in
> /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins


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