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- From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far...
- Date: 22 Jul 2002 13:49:53 -0600
Alright!! Gnome2 is cast and running on my PC. This e-mail is designed
to serve as a heads up to all who plan on doing this and have not thus
far, and perhaps I can get some advice/answers in repsonces.
The first thing I did was an udate. That worked fine. Then I cast
gnome-2-desktop-profile. All compiled fine until I got to libgthhtml. I
got a /uar/include/gtk/gtktext.h:65 field editable has incomplete type.
I sent my compile log to Jon, the maintainer of the Gnome section and
he responded in 25 minutes (Thanx Jon!). He pointed out tht I had a
link in /usr/include/ called gtk that was pointing at
/usr/include/gtk1.4. I deleted that an all compiled just fine...
Except I kept getting errors that said 'file:///etc/xml/catalog:error:
starting expected '<' not found. Hmm...my /etc/xml/catalog file was
empty (as always has been as far as I know). So I added a '<" to this
empty file and those spells seemed to compile fine now.
So what is supposed to be in /etc/xml/catalog? Talkng on #linuxhelp no
one had heard of it.
So I booted up gnome2..but there was no window manager loaded (I had
been using Enlighenment). Therefore the terminal could not get focus
and I could not type there. I explored the gconf program and tried
chaning the /usr/bin/sawfish to /usr/bin/enlightenment but no luck. I
just happene to be playing around with the mouse in the terminal and
looked at the properties for the keybindings. After loading up that
prefrence screen and hitting shift-cntrl-T, it opened up another tab
that i coudl type in. Note that that keybinding dod not work untill that
preferences dialog was viewed. Wierd. Perhaps looking at that dialog
refreshed or set teh keybindings. So i loaded up Metacity (ugly and
featureless) and everything worked. Almost...
I don't know how to change my window manager to enlightenment, so I am
just loading it instead of gnome-session. There are quite a few things
missing, for instance I have no calculator and recasting gnome-utils2
does not give it to me. My old gtk theme (DarkAlloy) does not work in
gnome2 of course, but when i load up an app that works with 1.4 it keeps
the basic colors of the theme, but not the textures. Wierd. I mean I
have the buttons hilighting to blue, but not the blue-metal that I would
expect.
Galeon no longer works as it is expecting a file that came with nautilis
for 1.4. And what really stumps me is that XMMS no longer works. My
sound card is blocked by something. I can't run mpg123 so I dont; think
it is really related to XMMS. What could be blocking my soundcard. I do
not think i have ess running.
I think Gnome2 is great, but not quite ready (this is a relese candidate
after all). Nautilus is FAST, in fact everything is faster.
Any comments or answers out there?:
Bearcat
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- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices ... should be Gripes, Dufflebunk, 07/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Robin, 07/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Jeremy Kolb, 07/20/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Robert Helgesson, 07/21/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process, M.L., 07/21/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Jon Svendsen, 07/21/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Casey Harkins, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
bluebird, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Casey Harkins, 07/22/2002
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[SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far...,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Yoav Avitzour, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Bearcat M. Sandor, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Jon Svendsen, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Bearcat M. Sandor, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Jon Svendsen, 07/23/2002
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[SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far...,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Casey Harkins, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Jon Svendsen, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
bluebird, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process, Eric Sandall, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process,
Casey Harkins, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process, Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] most annoying ..., bluebird, 07/22/2002
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