Re: GNOME 2 impressions

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 24 Nov 2001, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:

> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I built GNOME 2 yesterday and here are my impressions on it.
> 
> I have uploaded the images mentioned below to
> http://www.geocities.com/efgbr/gnome/. 
> 
> Note: Where I don't give many details it's because I assume it's a known
> problem. If you'd like more details on something, please let me know. 
> 
> GTK+ 
> - The default font size is too small. I copied gimp/themes/Default/gtkrc
> to $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 to fix this. 
> - The icons in the menus don't look good (compare the Copy and the Paste
> icons in gnome1-gtk-menu_icons.png and gnome2-gtk-menu_icons.png) 
> 
> gnome-core/ 
> gsm: 
> - Loopback error when gnome-session is launched (gnome2-gsm-01.png).
> btw, there's nothing wrong with /etc/hosts. 
> - I see a splash screen (yey!) and two new xterm windows appear (why?).
> I don't have nautilus or any of the capplets installed but I expected at
> least panel-2 to be started. 
> 
> panel: 
> - Launchers and applets added don't come back when the panel is
> restarted. (Compare gnome2-panel-01.png and gnome2-panel-02.png. Notice
> the missing wanda and clock applets and gnome-terminal launcher). 
> - Resizing the panel doesn't work correctly (gnome2-panel-03.png). 
> 

Panel porting is styill in progress and the applets largely[1] haven't
been ported yet, so this is largely unsuprising. All hands really are
welcome here.

> gnome-terminal: 
> - Preferences dialog doesn't work, no apply button
> (gnome2-terminal-01.png). 
> 
> nautilus/ 
> - failed build. 
> 

Still *VERY* *MUCH* in progress I'm afraid.

> I haven't played much with gnome-utils and gnome-media yet, but
> anyway... 
> 
> gnome-utils/ 
> - there are no icons in the menus of all apps (gnome2-utils-01.png). 
> - failed to build: gcolorsel, splash, gdialog and splash. 
> 

gcolorsel is probably dead (or hadess said something like that - we'll see
what he says ~ tuesday when he's back away from ireland).

> gnome-media/ 
> - there are no icons in the menus of all apps (gnome2-media-01.png). 
> - failed to build: cddb-slave2, vu-meter and gnome-cd 
> - gmix and grecord complained during "make" about a missing .desktop
> file, required by all-am. 
> 

slightly in progress, iain is the person here to ask, I think

> grecord: 
> - missing "Play" and "Stop" icons (gnome2-grecord-01.png). 
> 
> gmix: not really working for me. If I try to change any mixer settings
> it will set them to 0 (that means that at least Mute is working ;)
> (gnome2-gmix-01.png).
> 

That's just bugs (or about so), send patches 8-)

> That's all for now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Evandro 
> 

	Sander

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