Comments on: Projects libfm and pcmanfm are now merged!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:10:11 +0000

Gvfs have 2 minimal dependencies, the rest is optional, but disabling them will make gvfs pretty much minimal.

Probably for pcmanFM the only major need that gvfs would provide is file network connectivity (E.g.: Samba, NFS) and non-unicode support (wich is not trivial, but most people in the world (except US citizens) needs and everyone except KDE supports)

Gvfs is not a bad choice, but probably should be trimmed. but let’s just leave this as the devs criteria.

By: Gusar

Gusar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:03:55 +0000

@anonymous: Good. So it indeed can be trimmed down. Arch makes it easy to roll one’s own package, just modify the PKGBUILD and then makepkg. Everything’s ok for me then.

By: Neo

Neo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:07:14 +0000

hey pcman, lxde’s suse 11.0 repo dead.

linux-q11d:/home/neo # zypper in -t pattern ‘LXDE Desktop’
Reading installed packages…

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
menu-cache lxmenu-data lxshortcut lxsession-edit

The following NEW pattern is going to be installed:
LXDE Desktop

Overall download size: 163.0 K. After the operation, additional 484.0 K will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]: YES
Downloading package menu-cache-0.2.2-2.1.i586 (1/5), 67.0 K (195.0 K unpacked)
Downloading: menu-cache-0.2.2-2.1.i586.rpm [error]
File ‘./i586/menu-cache-0.2.2-2.1.i586.rpm’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear/openSUSE_11.0/’

Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
Downloading package lxmenu-data-0.1-2.1.i586 (2/5), 54.0 K (160.0 K unpacked)
Downloading: lxmenu-data-0.1-2.1.i586.rpm [error]
File ‘./i586/lxmenu-data-0.1-2.1.i586.rpm’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear/openSUSE_11.0/’

Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
Downloading package lxshortcut-0.1-3.1.i586 (3/5), 28.0 K (88.0 K unpacked)
Downloading: lxshortcut-0.1-3.1.i586.rpm [error]
File ‘./i586/lxshortcut-0.1-3.1.i586.rpm’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear/openSUSE_11.0/’

Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
Downloading package lxsession-edit-0.1-2.1.i586 (4/5), 14.0 K (41.0 K unpacked)
Downloading: lxsession-edit-0.1-2.1.i586.rpm [error]
File ‘./i586/lxsession-edit-0.1-2.1.i586.rpm’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear/openSUSE_11.0/’

Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
linux-q11d:/home/neo #

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:30:59 +0000

The current (September 25, 2009) version of the “Beyond Linux From Scratch” book lists only two required dependencies for gvfs: D-Bus, and GLib — see:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/gvfs.html

If your distros force more dependencies on you than that, then complain to the distro maintainers.

By: nicholas

nicholas — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:32:08 +0000

Any idea? Bad post. GVFS good think. Lammers dead….!

By: Gusar

Gusar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:07:55 +0000

I must say I agree with Jaroslav. The dependencies of gvfs are just too much. If gvfs can be trimmed down, then ok, but if all those dependencies are not optional… I’ll stay with the current pre-gvfs version of PCManFM.

By: Jaroslav Šmíd

Jaroslav Šmíd — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:15:57 +0000

It’s a pity that PCManFM will use libfm based on gvfs. You make the same mistake as Thunar’s developers. Although GVFS has some nice features, it’s too heavy and too slow. When I recently compared Thunar@ThunarVFS and Thunar@GVFS, Thunar@GVFS was twice as slow as Thunar@ThunarVFS when it came to loading /usr/lib directory. I’m expecting the same to happen to pcmanfm. Moreover, GVFS has ugly depencies on most of distributions – e.g. on ArchLinux it is samba, avahi, fuse, bluez, gnome-keyring, libarchive, libcdio, libgphoto, libsoup and those have even more depencies.
Now when pcmanfm will use GVFS, I end up with bloated system and it is no more choose for me.