Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

["Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur linuxbox nu>]

I have absolutely no issues with the Woody GNOME packages.  I'm running
Evolution, Galeon, with the standard gnome packages and I have no
problems.


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:25, Travis Saling wrote:
> > I had finally gotten a decent working environment on the Debian machine,
> > after a week or 2 of tweaking. Last night as I logged out, I got the dreaded
> > Gnome pop up errors :-( Needless to say when I logged on this morning my
> > environment was TOTALLY trashed, not panels all!
> > 
> > I've seen this failure in various flavors of Gnome for longer that I care
> > to remember.
> > 
> > Will Gnome _EVER_ become a stable environment to try to do productive work
> > in, That is one that I don't have to spend hours rebuilding on a regular
> > basis?
> 
> This has not been my experience at all. FYI I'm using Red Hat 7.2 with
> Ximian's Gnome currently, and have used the Red Hat packages before with
> good results.
> 
> I did have my environment get messed up once quite a while back, but
> fortunately I had my home directory backed up and recovering the
> previous .gnome directory was trivial. Since I tweak my system a lot,
> I've found it useful to keep a gzipped tarball of my .gnome directory
> around (I do that for most things I mess with). That way, if my setup
> gets hosed, I just have to get out of gnome, rm -Rf .gnome, and then
> unpack the tarball.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know anything about the Debian Gnome packages, so
> I don't know if what you describe is a common experience. (I'm not
> saying this applies in your case, but) When I've helped friends
> troubleshoot stability problems with various packages, a lot of times I
> find out they're in the habit of doing forced installs. In those cases
> the problems are often solved by going back and reinstalling, making
> sure to actually meet any and all dependencies.
> 
> Sorry not to offer more specific help.
> 
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