2013/11/4 Rostislav Krasny <rosti....@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Olivier Duchateau > <duchateau.oliv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2013/11/4 Rostislav Krasny <rosti....@gmail.com>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've noticed that 'xfce4-about' looks for the >>> /usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo file. If it's missed a warning >>> message is printed in console: >>> >>> xfce4-about-Message: No vendor information found in >>> "/usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo". >> >> It's odd x11/libxfce4menu is precisely compilled with option >> >> --with-vendor-info=FreeBSD >> >> It's an workaround, if we can't provide vendor info file. I know some >> Linux distros do same thing. > > I'm not familiar with autoconfig scripts, but is this workaround still > necessary? > According to following code chunk taken from > http://git.xfce.org/archive/xfce-utils/tree/configure.in.in
It's wrong file, xfce-utils is deprecated (located in archive folder). xfce4-about code now belongs to libxfce4ui (libxfce4menu in your ports tree). > eliminating the --with-vendor-info script argument will make > VENDOR_INFO undefined > > AC_ARG_WITH([vendor-info], > AC_HELP_STRING([--with-vendor-info=NAME], [Specify an additional > vendor name, optionally with a file in prefix/share/xfce4/NAME]), > [with_vendor_info="$withval"], [with_vendor_info=""]) > if test x"$with_vendor_info" != x""; then > AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([VENDOR_INFO], ["$with_vendor_info"], > [Additional vendor name and/or info]) > AC_MSG_RESULT([$vendorinfo]) > else > AC_MSG_RESULT([not set]) > fi > > Then xfce4-about (in its main.c) will not look for any vendorinfo file > and will show only xfce version without any vendor name. > http://git.xfce.org/archive/xfce-utils/tree/xfce4-about/main.c > >> I've never had this message in my log session. > > I see it in the console from wich I run startxfce4 To avoid this message create an empty file like this: touch /usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo See commit log, here http://git.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/commit/xfce4-about/main.c?id=4a14ef81cdc6f3e45b63eb42ca41c6af50c9c0c4 > >>> If this file exists then there is an additional tab (FreeBSD tab) in >>> the xfce4-about window and content of the vendorinfo file is printed >>> there. >>> >>> Is it a known feature? It seems to be added in the upstream 3 years >>> ago by following commit: >>> >>> http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-commits/2010-November/013752.html >>> >>> I think some "about" and/or other FreeBSD advertising information >>> could be put into that file. What do you think? >> >> Why not, but which file ? > > The /usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo file. Or did you ask what to write > there? -- olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xfce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xfce-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
