Question about non-xfce dependencies for 4.20

[Gaël Bonithon]

Yes, it's a reasonable choice from a packaging point of view, but the fact is that it's not a required dependency for building xfce4-panel.

Cheers,
Gaël

On Thursday, November 7th, 2024 at 6:28 PM, Ивалин <ivalin1996 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears it is listed as mandatory dependency in Arch .
>
> Zetta1 Reid0
>
> На чт, 7.11.2024 г., 19:14 ч. Gaël Bonithon <trash.paradise at protonmail.com> написа:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not sure what you mean about libdbusmenu, it's only used by the panel I think, and it's optional. Arch uses https://launchpad.net/libdbusmenu as a source, I guess that's the least worst (it's no longer maintained anyway).
>> For the compositor, it's labwc or wayfire indeed, weston is only for quick app testing, but not core components in general.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gaël
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build 4.20-rc1 packages, in the hope I can eventually
>>> run startxfce4-wayland and begin to work out how to setup my own
>>> (idiosyncratic) keyboard mapping. But I'm having difficulty
>>> identifying the non-xfce dependencies.
>>>
>>> This is on a completed (BLFS-12.2) system using startxfce4 which has
>>> Wayland protocols etc, but I'm having a bit of difficulty
>>> identifying exactly which non-xfce packages are needed.
>>>
>>> I eventually got libxfce4windowing built with gtk-layer-shell (deps
>>> of libdisplay-info, then gtk-layer-shell - those deps seemed hard to
>>> discover) but it appears that I need D-Bus menu support: I see
>>> Arch use a git version, and ubuntu have a (newer) version pulled
>>> from bzr, but that apparently needs some gnome package(s) to run
>>> ./autogen.sh.
>>>
>>> First question: Is there a canonical libdbusmenu version to download
>>> the source, and what dependencies does it require ?
>>>
>>> Second question: It seems I have a choice of compositors -
>>>
>>> One of the links at xfce mentioned Weston, but other links mentioned
>>> Wayfire or Labwc. Has here been any movement towards preferring a
>>> specific compositor ? (some of the notes might be out of date, I can
>>> see that developers are concnetrating on getting things working).
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> ĸen
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