Re: [Workrave-user] Why so complicated install?

[Rob C. <ro...@kr...>]

Hi,

> I used workrave some time in the past and I have no idead how I
> installed it. Perhaps it was listed in the dag repository, where it
> is listed no more - yum list available does not show it. 

Version 1.6.1 for FC1 is still on dags website.

> Looked info FC3 just for the first missing package - found nothing.
> For the second - found nothing. Compiled the last one - workrave
> still complains that it can not find it due to some pkg-config or
> something like that.

As far as I can see, all of these packages are listed on
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php

You need: gtkmm2, gconfmm2, libglademm2, libgnomecanvasmm2, libgnomemm2, 
libgnomeuimm2, gnet2 and libsigc++

> I gave up. Perhaps writing a simple package with basic features of
> workrave would be faster and certainly more enjoyable that
> installing workrave itself. 

Try DrWright. Its much simpler (and standard part of gnome as far as I know)

> Did you think about porting it to Java?

No. Though we discussed a python port once....

Groetjes,
   Rob