Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

[stan <stanb awod com>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:38:03PM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:25, Travis Saling wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> This _has_ been my experience, even recently, and its not a Debian
> problem, nor is it a user problem, its a gnome problem. I ranted about
> this on gnome-devel just a few days ago. (I probably shouldn't have
> bashed gconf as I did, since I actually think its the solution here.)
> This is a system maturity problem as I think gnome developers have been
> focussing on bigger issues. However, currently gnome breaks the golden
> rule: never loose users data! And configuration is data. I see you don't
> fully trust gnome to save your config either as you are in the habit of
> making a backup copy (I can't tell you how often having nightly backups
> has saved my ass after my gnome settings got scrambled). That's pathetic
> when you think about it. A reasonably designed system should _never_
> leave config files in an inconsistent state. The word I got was we'll
> have to wait for gnome 2 before a reasonable fix is in place.
> 

"Just Wait For The New Version" Is the same answer  I got about 3 to 4 
yeasr agao, when this was routienley hapening :-(

Sorry folks, thats not a aceptable answer, inless we wish to follow the
lead of out favorite software monoply.

NTW, this is  also ahpening routinely on my FreeBSD machines.. And I
don't have any very exoitic configs, just a _lot_ of them to set back up
every thime.

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