Re: Gnome2 Fun

[Mike Martin <redtuxxx yahoo co uk>]

 --- Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>
wrote: > 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/

Am I right in thinking these are without
anti-aliasing?

> 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
> 
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