I run across a very interesting project which should make the whole GNOME platform accessible from node.js. That’s something I was dreaming of when I experimented with HTML activities. Maybe I should pick that experiment up again some time…
I wanted to build the sugar shell on F15. I tried sugar-jhbuild and it didn’t work out of the box, so I thought I’d just do it manually. It was pretty painful, I’m sharing it in case someone tries to do the same.
First I installed a few dependencies. I was starting from a clean Fedora 15 livecd install.
sudo yum install gcc intltool libtool glib2-devel python-devel \
pygobject2-devel pygtk2-devel alsa-lib-devel libSM-devel \
gnome-common icon-naming-utils xcursorgen GConf2-devel \
hippo-canvas-python python-cjson python-dateutil \
pygtksourceview gnome-python2-rsvg vte
Then I checked out from git.sugarlabs.org the following modules:
sugar-base sugar-toolkit sugar-artwork sugar-datastore sugar-shell
I built each of them in that order with
./autogen.sh --prefix=~/Development/sugar/build make make install
I manually installed the schemas in the system prefix, I’m not sure if there is a better solution these days, even with jhbuild.
sudo GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule \
~/Development/sugar/sugar-shell/data/sugar.schemas
I created a script exporting various environment variables and sourced it
export PATH=~/Development/sugar/build/bin:$PATH export PYTHONPATH=~/Development/sugar/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~/Development/sugar/build/share export GTK_PATH=~/Development/sugar/build/lib/gtk-2.0 export GTK_DATA_PREFIX=~/Development/sugar/build
Running sugar-emulator in GNOME was crashing with weird errors for some reason, but it works from a basic X session with just a gnome-terminal in it.