E17 problem setting up desktop slideshow

[OnlyHuman]

I would be interested to hear if you download the source and manage to build it ok jb99, as with my minuscule of pclinux failed to build the module with errors.

[jb99]

Hi OnlyHuman
I had a go at downloading just the slideshow svn and trying to build it and got lots of errors.  After using synaptic to install all the e*-devel packages I got rid of most of the errors,  then got a missing file  "e.h" .  I didn't have that on my pc, so I decided to have a go at building all of the rest of the svn first.  ( Is this necessary?)
I followed the guide here:-
 http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Installation
 and successfully installed the eena, eet, and evas libraries with no errors but ecore kept failing with a missing file :

ecore_evas_private.h:37:42: fatal error: Evas_Engine_Software_16_X11.h: No such file or directory

One fix I tried on evas and ecore :-
./autogen.sh --enable-evas-ecore-software-16-x11=no
but this didn't work for me and I ran out of time at this point.

[OnlyHuman]

Hi jb99, thanks for that info, as pclinuxos e17 version is so old suspect newer slideshow from svn will not work unfortunately.
(Though it I was able to autogen, make, an make install using the svn slideshow on a distro which had a newer e17 version with no problems).
Maybe the way to go for some might be using the easy_e17 script if you are desperate for the latest e17 version.

[jb99]

I haven't tried svn before so it was interesting to follow it step by step.  I then tried using a script "get_e.sh" ( I had to alter it slightly to get it to run) and it was certainly a lot quicker and easier, but it also failed on "ecore make" with the same error message:-

ecore_evas_private.h:37:42: fatal error: Evas_Engine_Software_16_X11.h: No such file or directory.

I'll give the easy_e17 script a go and see it it fails at the same point.   Are there any paths or prefixes that need to be changed for pclinuxos to get everything in the right place?

Just to recap, with a newer e17 distro you think I should be able to autogen, make, an make install, just the slideshow from svn.

[OnlyHuman]

Hi jb99, if you used a distro with a more recent version of e17 you should be able to autogen, make, make && install, but obviously I can't guarantee it, just that it worked for me on another distro.
If you decide to download e17 from svn on pclinuxos using a script you will need to install the necessary dependencies first, you will probably need to use a prefix, the default using easy_e17 is /opt if I remember right, you may prefer to install to /usr.
Think there are some detailed instructions somewhere on the forum for using easy_e17.
Maybe you could request new e17 pkgs somewhere on the forum, that would be best for all pclinux e17 users 

[jb99]

Hi OnlyHuman,
                  Thanks for the info,  I tried the easy_e17 script (installing to /opt)  and managed to install the following libraries:-
Eina Eet Evas Ecore Efreet Embryo and Edje,  but the E_DBus threw up so many errors I gave up, I was almost there.!!!  
Anyway,  I have since written a quick bash script, which successfully created the edj files for 2600 photos.  The clever thing about
E17 is the edj files are only 5.9KB each and also resize my photos to fit the screen.  They are just pointers, so the original photos remain untouched in the original directory.   If anyone is interested I can post the bash script.  

[OnlyHuman]

Hi jb99, shame about installing problems, maybe you were missing some dependencies, or could be you were unlucky and svn had some bugs, seems pot luck sometimes whether it all works, also just a thought, there may be an updated easy_e17 script.
Update: This is a link to the dev version in svn http://omicron.homeip.net/svn/easy_e17/easy_e17.sh
That script you mentioned sounds useful, could be handy to e17 users, if its ok to post and share it on the forum. Well done.

[jb99]

Thanks OnlyHuman,
I have now successfully built all the libraries from the latest svn and installed e17.  I started from scratch by downloading the  PCLinuxOS-Light RAW Edition and found it much easier.  
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,100057.0.html
  Initially I tried the latest easy_e17 script but it failed with dependency errors,  I then installed e17 one module at a time fixing the errors as I went along.    The slideshow is working fine (still with the edje files) but the max delay can now be set to 2400 seconds.     I still have a few modules to build.
 It's possible the easy_e17 script would now work with all the dependencies solved.

 

[OnlyHuman]

Well done jb99 , so you have the latest svn e17 then now, any chance of building the pkgs too 
Odd jpgs not working though with slideshow, seems ok on another distro I use, maybe something needs adding to a spec file.

[jb99]

I checked again and jpgs are working ok,  although the same pictures are much softer ( out of focus ) than the edj files, not sure why?   The tiling option on wallpaper also works and I never got it working before.   Now it's set up it's very quick to add a module from the svn.    I've not looked at building packages, so not sure what's involved.    I suspect that if I did manage to make a package that worked on my pc,  it's a different story, making one with no bugs, that works for everyone.