Re: [SLE] Gnome for Suse 9.3 - Perspectives?

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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:30:54 +0100
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

James Ogley wrote:
>>I've been tinkering around with Suse 9.3 for a few days, and I'm
>>really impressed overall. I'd like to understand YAST a bit more (do
>>gconf and YAST get along?),
>
>
> Well, YaST is your system config tool, and GConf handles personal GNOME
> settings, it's like asking what the result of the last New York Yankees
> vs Manchester United match was.
>
>
>>implement apt-get,
>
>
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/
>
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>>improve or customize the Gnome desktop.
>
>
> GNOME is 9.3 pretty well rocks hard, I think the quality of SuSE's GNOME
> install this time around is borne out by the small number of packages
> I've had to replace - the only replacement rather than new package or
> upgrade is gnome-session, and that was to sort out the braindead
> hard-coding of starting suseplugger and susewatcher at login.
>
>
>>Novell is really interested in delivering a solid
>>product rather than using it as an experimental launching pad for
>>another product.
>
>
> Well, I'm currently downloading SuSE's 2.11.x packages, and prior to
> that I had no problem in building the latest GARNOME release, which is
> pretty forward looking. But, you talk as if being stable and solid is a
> bad thing. I bet that the packagers of these packages will have been as
> rigorous about them as any other, even though they are stated to be beta
> code.
>
>
>>When I began using Suse 9.3, I was a little disappointed by Suse's
>>implementation of Gnome. It "appears" that much effort has gone into
>>KDE (and it shows), but less into Gnome.
>
>
> If you knew the sheer number of SuSE-specific patches, you wouldn't say
> that. Also, there's a very good reason why the default Panel
> configuration (for example) broadly matches the default GNOME one, and
> that's that the GNOME team have got it right.
>
>
>>Anyway, back to the point of this email. I obviously can customize my
>>Gnome desktop, but before I continue to do so, I'd like to hear from
>>other Suse Gnome users out there who can give me their impressions
>>about working with Gnome in Suse? I'd be interested in hearing any
>>perspectives about Gnome/Suse that you may have.
>
>
> Find out what the community at large thinks on a number of issues, as
> well as finding handy links to things you might find helpful at
> http://planetsuse.org
>
> James, your friendly neighbourhood SuSE-GNOME hero.

James, perhaps you can enlighten me, but here are some problems I've
noted with GNOME and I'm not alone.
You see the latest versiom of a Gnome app, it calls for a number of
co-reqs/pre-reqs. You try to install the pre-reqs, it calls recursively
for others, you finally get them all installed and you break other apps.
Your new app (many many ages ago - gnomemeeting and gimp) doesn't work
correctly or fails to start. I don't know if this is a thing of the past
as recent versions of gimp have not needed any other upgrades.
I tried building garnome for about a year, gave up about a year ago,
never got a successful build.
Do you have to perform major surgery when some new apps appear or is it
more predictable now?
Regards
Sid.

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