Now that I am back form the final month of studies, which stalled my progress for good 4 weeks, some things in my initial plan has changed. After some consultation with my mentor on how to implement the creation and management of user profiles, it was decided, that I should integrate it into gnome-control-center user management (in account type, to be precise) and form here see, if it is working out. I couldn’t find any g-c-c documentation and comments in code are few and far between, so I have to rely on my investigation skills here, but I think I have figured the system out, so some hard results should be coming soon.
While this sounds rather easy, I found out, that jhbuild on Ubuntu system is an uphill battle, so after a some advice form fellow gnome developer, I installed Fedora 17 on my laptop and will see how it will turn out. Right now I am in step 18 of 94 and have no idea, why some sqlite patch is missing.
This is it for now.
jhbuild on Ubuntu does work. You may want to install jhbuild 3.4 from Quantal though. I can’t figure out if jhbuild 3.2 is broken enough to convince the SRU team to let it into precise-updates or if it needs to go to backports instead.
Depending on what you’re doing and how willing you are to have a potentially broken computer, running a development release (such as Ubuntu 12.10 or Fedora 18) may be easier and then you won’t need to jhbuild as many pieces.