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Naming consideration with regards to dependencies of mate-power-manager (libmatepanelapplet should be mate-panel simply) #371

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rubyFeedback opened this issue Dec 7, 2021 · 0 comments

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Hey there mate-devs,

This is more a "naming-consideration" suggestion.

Background: I tend to compile mate-desktop from source and it works
almost perfectly; a few minor things here and there (see other
github issues I started) but by and large I am quite happy. I
can do oldschool "startx" from init 3 and mate-desktop starts
fine, so it's mostly fine.

Now I am trying to compile mate-power-manager-1.26.0.

My problem is that the configure script tells me this error:

checking whether to build applet support... checking for PANEL... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libmatepanelapplet-4.0 >= 1.17.0) were not met:

No package 'libmatepanelapplet-4.0' found

Ok, so ... I need a "matepanelapplet" I guess.

HOWEVER had, if you go there:

https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.26/

The only package with "panel" in it is "mate-panel".

I assume matepanelapplet refers to this?

I just compiled mate-panel-1.26.1 from source, and now I seem
to be able to compile "mate-power-manager" - at the least as
I write this it is currently compiling. I'll see in a few
minutes.

My suggestion is to modify the name a bit. And to check
whether the 1.17.0 dependency should not simply be upgraded.

I would propose to change the above to 'No package mate-panel" found.'

I think this would be better, because as a user or someone who wants
to compile it from source, the "applet" part confuses me, because
no tarball is named like this. It would be better if it were to
refer to "mate-panel" instead.

This may seem like a minor issue, and it is! But I think getting
the names right would really be super-helpful.

Thanks for reading and deciding either way is fine!

@rubyFeedback rubyFeedback changed the title Naming consideration with regards to dependencies of mate-power-manager Naming consideration with regards to dependencies of mate-power-manager (libmatepanelapplet should be mate-panel simply) Dec 7, 2021
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