Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41A1A59C.3070300@familiehaase.de> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:38:52 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello)" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to use GNOME References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello) wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded and installed (with setup.exe) the GNOME-packages (those > in release/GNOME directory). (I have all CYGWIN installed). > > It is not clear for me how I, now, have to use them. > (I have not desktop icons for GNOME, also is I have selected, from > setup.exe to have them: only Cygwin icon is present) > > Should I run something? Should I have some GNOME-Desktop? How? > > .... or the packages could be only usefull to create (build) applications? Currently yes. Applications that don't need a full blown Gnome desktop should build (eg. GIMP, Dia, inkscape, conglomerate, sodipodi, gnumeric). > The http://www.gnome.org says that GNOME is a "Desktop & Developer > Platform". I have seen the "User Screenshots Gallery" at > > http://ftp.gnome.org/... > > It is very interessing! > > Is it possible to have that with CYGWIN? How? Are the packages actually > present in CYGWIN sufficient? There are some packages missing to run the desktop. These will be uploaded as soon as packaging is finished. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/