Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-12 Thread Felix Natter
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It looks as if potato is on v 1.0. Here are some package listings > > from my system: > > ii gnome-admin1.0.3-2Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview) > > ii gnome-bin 1.0.56-3 Misc

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-06 Thread Felix Natter
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks as if potato is on v 1.0. Here are some package listings > from my system: > ii gnome-admin1.0.3-2Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview) > ii gnome-bin 1.0.56-3 Miscellaneous binaries used by Gnome > ii gnome-control-

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks to you and the other posters for some interesting points. I ended up with GNOME/enlightenment/balsa based on picking some of debian tasks for GNOME, so I do think the issues are partly GNOME and even partly Debiain. Specifically, Debian picks a standard window manager (Enlightenment) and t

Re: Gnome gripes

2000-05-03 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:04:23PM -0400, David S. Bateman wrote > could someone who has Gnome "working" post his/her configuation? I've > edited Xsession according to _Learning Debian GNU/Linux : > > #!/bin/bash > xterm & > gmc & > enlightenment & > panel > exit 0 > ##

Re: Gnome gripes

2000-05-03 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:04:23PM -0400, David S. Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edited Xsession according to _Learning Debian GNU/Linux : I assume you mean ~/.xsession. I should hope the book wouldn't advise that you screw up /etc/X11/Xsession. > #!/bin/bash > xterm & > gmc &

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-03 Thread Felix Natter
"Eric G . Miller" writes: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:59:25PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I've been using GNOME for awhile in potato--my first encounter with > > it. It just doesn't seem ready. I know potato is pre-release, and we > > may not have the latest GNOME in it, and the GNOME folks

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-02 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello out there, On Mon, 1 May 2000, Ross Boylan wrote: > Stability: > Balsa crashes very frequently. This seems to be a widely encountered problem. On my box (i486), balsa from potato crashes just on startup (Segfault). It was the first time I installed it, so I got the one from stable for tes

RE: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-02 Thread Mullins, Ron
Hi there. > Features: > Session management is not there. All my windows come back in the > first pane of the desktop. There seems to be no way to get rid of > things once they are in there. I tried closing them and resaving the > session. I tried deleting them from the session configuration to

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-02 Thread Maury R. Merkin
Ross Boylan wrote: > I've been using GNOME for awhile in potato--my first encounter with > it. It just doesn't seem ready. I know potato is pre-release, and we > may not have the latest GNOME in it, and the GNOME folks are working > hard. > > So I thought I'd gripe, check if this matches others

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:59:25PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've been using GNOME for awhile in potato--my first encounter with > it. It just doesn't seem ready. I know potato is pre-release, and we > may not have the latest GNOME in it, and the GNOME folks are working > hard. > > So I though