[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[Bob Funk]

Hey,

thanks for dropping me a line here. It looks like the "Sept 27 email" went
to my spam and unnoticed by me until prompted by this email.

I can get the gnome-terminal slackbuild script tweaked to build without
nautilus and get the changes in for next weeks update. It's been on my todo
list with changes when I update it, but I might as well do it now.

Regarding your request to take over: I'd still prefer to maintain it and
use it as my primary terminal emulator. You mentioned wanting to take it
over so you can submit an updated slackbuild to ponce's slackware current
repo. I was unaware this is something we can do, but I can certainly do
that as well, if ponce is okay with me making pull requests to his repo.

Regards,

Bob





On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, Pablo Romano wrote:
>
> >
> > 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 maintainer is Bob Funk. He's an active maintainer, last
> activity September 16, 2026, and he's responded to several emails
> from me over the last 2 or 3 months. He maintains most of the GNOME
> builds on SBo, and I don't feel good about giving one of his builds to
> another maintainer without talking to him myself, or seeing a reply
> from him on this mailing list.
>
> > 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.
>
> That seems like a good idea to me. Bob, you listening?
>
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