Re: SuSE and GNOME

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

Nathan Clemons wrote:
> 
> Part of the problem, I think, is that they put everything in /opt/gnome,
> but they don't reference any of the /opt/gnome directories where it would
> be helpful (like in the bashrc and csh.cshrc files, etc). Thus you have to
> muck around and find a good place to insert it in the PATH declarations
> (and their shell RC files are some of the worst that I have seen).
Gnome has not been considered part of the stable system (as it wasn´t)
all necessary declarations are being made from the /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome
startup script.
Installing in /opt/gnome isn´t a problem as such. I think it's a
reasonable descison.

Jan 

> 
> My girlfriend was happy with SuSE until she tried to work with GNOME.
> She's now given away her SuSE sets for 6.0 and 6.1 and is running rather
> happily with Mandrake 6.0.
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> >
> > So, I saw it with my own eyes.  GNOME as shipped in SuSE 6.1 is broken
> > beyond hope.  I do not know what is going on, but the thing is hardly
> > usable.
> >
> > I have seen detailed reports on GNOME problems with SuSE on this list
> > and detailed problem listings.  Could these people please email the
> > SuSE maintainers and try to get the fixes into the distribution?
> >
> > They are taking suggestions to improve the GNOME state, but we need to
> > send those over.  I am not running SuSE myself now so I can not do this.
> > Please, help us.
> >
> > Miguel.
> >
> >
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