Gnome2 Fun

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

Using the gnome2 snapshots from the Red-Carpet channel I got a pretty 
usable Gnome2 setup going.  This gives me a snapshot from around April 25.

I made some screenshots if anyone is interested, 
http://joshuaeichorn.com/screenshots/gnome2/

I didn't run into a lot of problems, but there were a couple of 
persistent crashes, of course i'm not sure if there fixed yet, and i 
don't really want to rebuild the entire chain from cvs just to check 
things out.

The redhat Start-here link causes nautilus to crash, and if thats a 
Redhat specific patch its understandable that it doesn't work but i 
don't think it should crash nautilus.

Also there seems to be a bug with the Window Apperance preference 
window.  When your selecting a new theme, the theme is changed on each 
mouseover of a name on the pulldown.  After 3 or 4 for, rep locks up 
(cpu is at 100%) and i have to kill it by hand to do much of anything else.

From my little bit of testing and using gnome2 as my primary desktop at 
home Metacity seems a lot less flaky then sawfish, well except for you 
can't move sawfish in Metacity and its ugly :-)

Anyhow that info probally not that useful, if someone else is seeing the 
problem in the window appearance setting window and its not just a 
messed up setup here
(/usr/bin/rep is hasn't been updated from gnome 1.4), then i'll submit a 
but, otherwise enjoy the screenshots
-joshua eichorn