[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[Pablo Romano]

Hello,

I contacted the maintainer of gnome-terminal on September 27 to ask for 
permission to take over maintenance of the package, but I have not 
received a reply after two weeks. I would therefore like to ask SBo for 
permission to take over the package from the current maintainer.

The current version of gnome-terminal cannot be updated further due to 
the limitations of Slackware 15.0. However, the SlackBuild itself can be 
improved considerably.

At present, it declares gnome-shell and nautilus as dependencies, which 
makes building the package take a very long time. Neither of them is 
actually required for the core gnome-terminal application; they are only 
needed for the optional GNOME Shell search provider and Nautilus extension.

I have prepared and tested an alternative SlackBuild that disables those 
two optional integrations by default, removing gnome-shell and nautilus 
as mandatory dependencies and greatly reducing the overall build time. 
The SlackBuild still allows either integration to be enabled optionally 
at build time for users who have gnome-shell and/or nautilus installed.

The resulting package builds and works correctly on Slackware 15.0 
without either dependency installed, and it passes both sbolint and 
sbopkglint.

I am forwarding below the message I originally sent to the current 
gnome-terminal maintainer.

Thank you.




-------- Mensaje reenviado --------
Asunto: 	gnome-terminal SlackBuild
Fecha: 	Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:07:31 +0200
De: 	Pablo Romano <promano7 at hotmail.com>
Para: 	bobfunk11 at gmail.com <bobfunk11 at gmail.com>



Hi Bob,
I'm writing about the gnome-terminal SlackBuild in SlackBuilds.org.
I've been testing the current 3.43.90 build on an up-to-date Slackware 
15.0 system. I found that the gnome-shell and nautilus dependencies are 
only needed for the optional GNOME Shell search provider and Nautilus 
extension.
I have prepared and tested a small revision that disables those two 
optional integrations by default, removes gnome-shell and nautilus from 
REQUIRES, and still allows users to enable them at build time with 
NAUTILUS=yes and/or SEARCH_PROVIDER=yes.
The resulting package builds and installs successfully without either 
gnome-shell or nautilus installed, passes both sbolint and sbopkglint, 
and works correctly with Slackware 15.0's stock VTE 0.66.2.
I would also like to maintain gnome-terminal going forward. In addition 
to keeping the Slackware 15.0 SlackBuild maintained, I plan to prepare a 
SlackBuild for the current stable gnome-terminal 3.60 release for 
Slackware-current and contribute the necessary version to Ponce's 
slackbuilds repository. I need to be the maintainer on SBo to submit a 
pull request to Ponce's repository.
Would you be OK with me taking over maintainership of gnome-terminal on 
SlackBuilds.org?
Of course, I would retain your existing copyright notice in the SlackBuild.
Thanks for your work maintaining the package and the other GNOME 
components in SBo.
Best regards,
Pablo
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