Re: Brasero, or gnome without gnome

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> The attached patch yields a "working" brasero in the sense that it starts, 
> shows all icons, and allows, for instance, to drag and drop files from the
> kde file browser into an image to be created. Apart from that, many helper
> programs (mkisofs, cdrecord etc.) are missing, so the program is of little
> practical use... But we can still use it to advance our understanding of
> gnome packaging!

:-)  Can’t it use GNU xorriso as the back-end?

> And not to start a flame war, but I see it as a real incentive to consider
> kde packaging...

I think you’d encounter similar patterns there.

Besides, while I have nothing against KDE (esp. if someone else does the
job ;-)), I think we should support GNOME as it is somewhat related to
GNU.

> As a first step, for qt, I think we might need to get the cmake build
> system working. Cyril, would you be able to make it work on x86_64,
> potentially by disabling the failing test in cmake?

Good news: the failing test no longer fails on x86_64!  That could be a
result of the ‘ldd’ fix in core-updates.

Ludo’.