gnome-desktop-3.32.2

Introduction to GNOME Desktop

The GNOME Desktop package contains a library that provides an API shared by several applications on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Desktop Dependencies

Required

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0, GTK+-3.24.10, ISO Codes-4.3, itstool-2.0.6, libseccomp-2.4.1, libxml2-2.9.9, and xkeyboard-config-2.27

Recommended

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.32

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-desktop

Installation of GNOME Desktop

Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a functioning test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dgnome_distributor="Some Name": Use this parameter to supply a custom name in the “Distributor:” field of the “GNOME About” display window.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libgnome-desktop-3.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gnome-desktop-3.0, /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-desktop3, and /usr/share/help/*/{fdl,gpl,lgpl}

Short Descriptions

libgnome-desktop-3.so

contains functions shared by several GNOME applications.

Last updated on 2019-08-23 21:39:43 -0700