2.6.1 on SuSE 9.0: comments + buglet

[Marciano Siniscalchi <marciano northwestern edu>]

Hi All,

I just installed 2.6.1 on my SuSE 9.0 system. Just three words: I am
impressed! Everything worked more or less right out of the box. I do
have a couple of comments, though.

First, the SuSE package names are somewhat different from their RedHat
counterpart. I haven't had the time to produce a complete list---maybe
I'll do it at some point. Relative to the files listed in the README
document, I noticed that:
1. pspell-devel does not appear to be necessary for "desktop"---I did
have aspell and aspell-devel installed though.
2. I had to install startup-notification-devel from the Gnome 2.4 devel
packages from SuSE; this is not listed as a dependency in the README
file.

In any event, I was happy to learn that, if the build process exists
with an error, just installing the required package and doing a "make
paranoid-install" works---or at least it seems to work.

Second, this is probably only SuSE-related. I use GDM 2.4 (also from the
SuSE Gnome 2.4 rpm packages) as my DM. To add a garnome session, the
SuSE-kosher way is to drop a simple script called "garnome"
in /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions. This is *not* the actual garnome-session
script---more like a placeholder: just copy one of the existing scripts,
e.g. by 

cp /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/gnome /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/garnome

*Then* you need to drop the actual Garnome startup script
in /usr/X11R6/bin, and call it "garnome". This is the script provided in
the README file, which does the actual work (of course, this must be
executable).

I do not claim to understand how this works exactly, but the SuSE
scripts (or maybe GDM) scan /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions to see which
sessions are available; then they launch the corresponding script
in /usr/X11R6/bin. So, the name of the placeholder script
in /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions must be the same as the name of the
actual session script in /usr/X11R6/bin. I believe this is done so that
the same session scripts work under both GDM and KDM. Again, this is a
SuSE-only issue, I believe.

Finally, I could not properly "make install" the redhart-artwork
package. Basically, the Metacity and GTK2 themes work, but icons (both
for the desktop and for Nautilus) are *not* built or installed (I
checked by looking inside the Work directory). BTW, I had to install the
gtk-devel, glib-devel and gdk-pixbuf-devel RPM packages for "make
install" to work. In particular, the gtk-devel dependency is caught by
the configure script, but the gdk-pixbuf dependency is not---the build
process fails with errors such as "GdkPixbuf undefined...".

M