Re: Cannot login to GNOME after sid update

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:26:05PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Frank <debianlist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Another update came through later....about 8 new packages and now at
least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now I am
curious.

My main complaint is various settings seem to now be ignored...
(e.g., fonts are different, my display background is the default, not
what I set, etc).

That seems to be things to expect for such major upgrade: gnome2 -> gnome3.

It is practically impossible to take care a non-regular transition of
such minor details.

Dunno if this is a bug with the current debian state of things, or a
general problem with gnome3. Downgrading everything to gnome2 seems
to fix the problems tho.

If you wish to move to gnome3 while on tesing/unstable system, you need
to deal such transition yourself for each account on the system as I
understand. If you do not like to deal with such complication, please
keep using Debian stable.

Of course, if you can come up with bug-free robust transition script from
gnome2 to gnome3, please file wishlist bug with your proposed script. I
am sure that the maintainer will include it as an example script or so.

Regards,

Osamu


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