Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

[Henry Katz <henry katz iscs-i COM>]

hobbit aloss ukuu org uk wrote:
> I just have to interject here. I spend a lot of time
> trying to
> persuade people to submit bug reports. One of the reasons cited
> not to do so is that they'll just be ignored, or sworn at.
Excuse my attempt to downplay an American swear word by replacing it with
an English one.
> I meet gnome-terminal geometry troubles on relogging
> in sometimes.
> It's more than minor. On occasion they have shrunk from 80x50 to
> more like 10x10.
Yes - I confirm this. This is ridiculous and should be easy to fix. Assuming
you have the time...

> The hardware is dual 1.2Ghz Athlon MP .5 Gb Ram, gnome, rh 7.2 2.4.9-31.
> What files should I be looking at in .gnome* for evidence of tampering.

When it comes to logging in and out, I would include /tmp/.ICE-unix
and friends too. I doubt it causes any harm, but I certainly see a
lot of sockets in there which are simply never cleaned it. I have
files going back to January 2000 there...

Mine only go back two months..
> I don't think "this doesn't bother me" is a good
> way to assess how
> much it bothers someone else. I can cheerfully live without a graphical
> file manager, without GDM, without xchat, and without support for
> printing other languages. I do tend to presume that GNOME is for
> more people than just me though...
Please don't get me wrong. I enjoy gnome and use it both on Linux and Solaris.
I just intended to say
that depending on your production requirements you may want a backup.

Henry
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