What is GNOME-COMPAT?

	gnome-compat is an effort to provide low-to-midlevel
compatibility for programs which use libraries from GNOME,
without having a full installation of GNOME.

Some of the required libraries are still included in Slackware
versions after 10.1. Note that as with version 10.2 of Slackware,
you can only build GNOME-2.10 or less. GNOME-2.12 requires a later
version of GLIB2 than what's available in Slackware-10.2.

*** Runtime Requirements ***
Assuming that you have a pretty standard Slackware installation with a GUI, 
you'll already have all this installed from standard Slackware packages.
These are required for running or compiling the GNOME-COMPAT packages and
should be installed first:

glib-1.2
gtk-1.2
GTK2
GLIB2
gdk-pixbuf
libxml2
libxslt
libglade
libart_lgpl
glib-2
atk
pango
audiofile
esound
libidl
***

Group 1:
ORBit2-2.12.2
GConf-2.10.1
libbonobo-2.10.0
gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
gnome-vfs-2.10.1
libgnome-2.10.1

Group 2:
libgnomecanvas-2.10.2
libgnomecups-0.2.2
libgnomeprint-2.10.3
libbonoboui-2.10.1
hicolor-icon-theme-0.5
gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1
gnome-keyring-0.4.0
libgnomeui-2.10.1
libgnomeprintui-2.10.2

GROUP 3:
gtk-engines-2.6.3
gnome-themes-2.10.2
gail-1.8.4
libgtkhtml-2.6.3
gtkhtml-3.5.7


Slackware-type packages are available for all the above programs
from http://amigolinux.org
They should work on any Slackware version 10.1 and later, perhaps
even on 10.0. If you have trouble, let me know or rebuild them from
source for your system.

Depending on which programs you are trying to run, it's possible
that you could do without the gconf, gnome-mime-data and gnome-keyring 
packages, though they must be installed for compiling some packages
that follow them in the list.

Some common extras that you might need for some programs include:
fribidi
oaf
gnet
libole2
libgtop
libgpg-error
libcrypt
libgsf
librsvg
libwnck
libsoup
fam. avahi, dbus and HAL for gnome-vfs


Roll Your Own:

Sources are very easily compiled with the provided PkgBuild scripts, if you
have Amigo PkgBuild installed. If not, they still will tell you all you need to
know to configure and compile the packages. The main thing to watch for is that
the pkgconfig .pc files get installed and that some packages need sysconfdir or 
localstatedir to be specified -most use /var/lib for the latter, but others
just use /var, so watch out!
The other thing is to be sure and follow the build order and install each package
as you go.

Perhaps more likely, you'll find some program that needs something
that's not in the list. Please inform me, if so. I plan to work on getting HAL
and dbus included and I may try to reach another level as outlined above.
Of course, there are many other programs that could be included without any more
requirements. But there are around 120 packages for each version in the GNOME tree
to sort through. Adding any one of them could require several others.

The next step past here would provide compatibility for real GNOME
programs such as gnome-utils, gnome-desktop or gnome panel.
I haven't worked on this alot as there are other projects which
provide fuller implementations of GNOME.
However, trying shows this:
trying gnome-utils asks for gnome-desktop
trying gnome-desktop asks for scrollkeeper
trying scrollkeeper asks for docbook DTD 
an so on...

All comments, suggestions and criticisms should be hurled this way:
amigo@ibiblio.org
But, please put GNOME-COMPAT in the subject line of your e-mail, so
I can see it. I'm also on the Amigo Linux and Slackware forums 
at linuxquestions.org as 'gnashley'