Comments on: Workaround: Gnome-Do Docky in Fedora 12

By: Marc Ferguson

Marc Ferguson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:16:05 +0000

Hey OCM,

Were you able to successfully do the group installs and other dependencies before trying to compile the gnome-do source file? What distro are you running btw?

By: One Call Merch

One Call Merch — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:43:10 +0000

i am getting soooooooooooo many errors and core file dumps No such file or directory ,,, think i'll forget about this,,, maybe some other time, been trying sort it for a few days now,,,

By: Istvan Cebrian

Istvan Cebrian — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:34:18 +0000

Just tried this on FC13 Beta. However I didnt want to install the entire development groups… the following packages sufficed for building:

yum install gtk2-devel gnome-sharp-devel gnome-desktop-sharp-devel gnome-keyring-sharp-devel mono-addins-devel ndesk-dbus-devel ndesk-dbus-glib-devel notify-sharp-devel GConf2-devel intltool gtk-sharp2-gapi mono-devel

By: FergatROn

FergatROn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:21 +0000

Thank you Toño for leaving a comment. Funny though… with all the comment spam we bloggers have to deal with now-a-days, even a simple well-intended comment such as yours leaves me wondering if “Tono” is a real person. Either way, you’re welcome. I’m glad you found it helpful.

By: Toño

Toño — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:03:23 +0000

Thanks….

By: FergatROn

FergatROn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:05:37 +0000

Yah, the US Patent Office is a complete joke. I sure hope that system is changes. Well thanks for the informative comment. It looks like every Fedora user should install RPMFusion’s repo as a common practice.

By: Nushio

Nushio — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:57:04 +0000

The branching out was already happening, regardless of Fedora’s actions.

The reason RPMFusion is in the clear, is that it’s not US-Based. This means that US Patents don’t apply to them, where as Fedora, being US-Based, has to obey the silly american laws.

The specific point i’m against is actually looking through the US Patent office just to see what violations you can find in the software you provide. Its ridiculous.

By: FergatROn

FergatROn — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:00:36 +0000

I guess being preemptive is good, but if I understand your statements – Tom did this without there being any hint of legal action. This is just a hunch, or an educated guess. If we did that for apps in general, we’d really be crippling software development. Thus this awesome “Docky” option, so nicely packaged within Gnome-Do, now has to branch off into a new project based on a hunch.

I’ve been using Linux exclusively for about a year or so. So; I’m not fully there yet when it comes to the politics of package development/management, repos, legalities, etc.

I’m guessing that Fedora doesn’t want to be caught up in possible legal stuff, but RPMFusion is fine with it? So; Gnome-Do will be in the Fedora repos and Docky will be in RPMFusion repo. If that’s the case, then from a user perspective we still haven’t lost anything… just another package to install.

By: Nushio

Nushio — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:11:18 +0000

What DBO said is correct. I’m the gnome-do fedora packager. Tom “spot” Callaway did a preemptive action and removed Docky entirely from gnome-do before receiving any sort of cease and desist.

As a result, I talked with gnome-do devs who helped me and created the patch to sacrifice the magnification functionality to appease the legal gods.

As a note, I am against crippled software, and if it wasn’t for the fact that Docky will no longer be shipped in gnome-do in future releases (It will become its own package, named Docky), I would have moved gnome-do to RPMFusion immediately.

I intend to send Docky to RPMFusion once its ready.

By: DBO

DBO — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:50:31 +0000

I thought I would just let you know that fedora did not remove Docky due to any legal complaints from Apple. They removed it because they *think* there *might* be legal issues (however this has not been verified in a court of law). Apple has thus far done zippo with regard to Docky, this one is squarely on Fedora.