Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 02 Nov 2012 06:21:39 Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 01 Nov 2012 13:46:20 Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 01 Nov 2012 03:53:44 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 23:12 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > >> > 121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > >> > > On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > >> > >> I was thinking of using razor-qt
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > From the Oct 20 automated package removal email
> > >> > > you might want to investigate why before moving to it.
> > >> > > 
> > >> > >   x11-wm/razorqt                          2012-10-22 10:00:01
> > >> > >   yngwin x11-misc/lightdm-razorqt-greeter        2012-10-22
> > >> > >   10:01:35
> > >> > >   
> > >> > >     yngwin
> > >> > 
> > >> > As sometimes happens, "removal" really means "moved" :
> > >> > it has a new Portage category all to itself, like Xfce.
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks for clarifying.
> > >> 
> > >> BillK
> > > 
> > > Phew!  Just as I was about to hit the abort button.  :-)
> > > 
> > > Has anyone tried it and can comment how it compares to KDE?
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Mick
> > 
> > Mick,
> > 
> >    I've used 0.4.2 a bit. It worked fine but as a KDE user it felt a
> > 
> > little strange. I didn't invest much time to make myself more
> > comfortable.
> > 
> >    My trading partner who is newer to Linux (about 1 year now) has
> > 
> > been using razor-qt for the last month or so. He was fine with 0.4.2
> > but when they moved the package group they also had an update to 0.5.
> > Unfortunately this did not produce correct resolutions on one of his
> > three monitors so he's back to running KDE and doing updates on razor
> > until that gets fixed. (TTBOMK he has not filed a bug report.)
> 
> Thank you all for your responses.  The PC in question has two monitors,
> with different resolutions, so I will be needing this to work fine (or
> will never hear the end of it).
> 
> I'll make some time to try it out over the weekend and if they don't like
> it I may push the boat out and switch to e17 (which I am more familiar
> with).

Ahhh!  Abort - Abort!

It tries to load Gnome packages ...

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.1.0  148 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/vala-0.12.1  USE="vapigen -test" 2,233 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.32.4  PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 
python3_2 -python2_5 -python2_6 -python3_1" 0 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.22  USE="introspection -doc -
vala" 324 kB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-misc/lightdm-1.0.11  USE="introspection qt4 -branding -
gtk -test" 636 kB
[snip ...]

I thought it was USE=branding in lightdm that did it, but I disabled branding 
for lightdm, so I don't know what's pulling these in.

It seems that I'll need to try it with kdm instead.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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