Congratulations!

[Dirk Luetjens <dirk luedi oche de>]

Hello,

finally I managed to install GNOME. From what I have seen so far, I'm
overhelmed. Wonderful work. I like the pixmaps:-) Congratulations to all
involved persons.

(Read further, there is although a suggestion at the end of the mail :-)

While installing I faced the following problems:
- mico circular dependecy:
  solved by compiling without --enable-gtk to get a working idl-compiler
  compiled again with --enable-gtk, until the error in the idl
  directory, about the missing libmicoaux. In the auxdir directory build 
  libmicoaux with:
  
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/gnome/mico-working/libs
  ~/src/gnome/mico-working/idl/idl --name dynany ../include/mico/dynany.idl
  cp dynany.h ../include/mico
  make
  
  Afterwards you have the libmicoaux library and can go on.
  For those who use debian system, I assembled the mico stuff into a
  debian-package

  There was although a typo somewhere, but I can't remember. You will have
  to copy auxdir/CORBA-c.cc to orb/CORBA-C.cc
  Oh, yes and the whole configure stuff. I got the original mico-2.0.5.tgz
  and assembled the missing macros in mico.m4 from aclocal.m4 from the
  original package. For the GCC_VERSION problem I commented the test
  out and set a variable just  after the test.

- After installing mico, gnome-lib, gnome-core all applications bailed
  out with "Bad Match". This was due to the wrong imlib version. After
  installing the CVS version everything went ok. The wrong version in
  terms of debian were:
  gdk-imlib-dev_1.1-3.deb, imlib1_1.1-3.deb

That was all :-). A few bugs can make your life hard.

Ok, I although have a suggestion concerning the tooltips handling. When
you stay on an icon for a short time, the tooltips pops up. When you move
the cursor to the next button it would be great when the tooltip comes up
immediatly, without waiting the short amount of time. 

Keep up the good work. Hope I can help the GNOME project in the near
future.

Dirk