Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 21:54, Marv Boyes wrote:

I'm still testing...borked it a few times...

> 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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