Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Christian Marillat writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"):
> Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > What other [conflicting] files are involved ?
> 
> Pixmaps files, .mo files, documentation files.

> These can be put in different directories, surely ?

The pixmaps path is harcoded in gnome libraies, this imply we need to
recompile all gnome2 applications who use stock gnome pixmaps or store
pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps

For .mo files no. Those files are i18n files and are only read in
/usr/share/locale by libc

Sure documentations can be moved elsewhere.

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> Libraries aren't compatible. You can't recompile a GNOME 1 package
> against a GNOME 2 package. And GNOME 2 libraries are stable. 2.0.1 has
> been released 2 weeks ago.

> So, taking the sawfish example, the _source_ has changed but the
> resulting binary behaves similarly after the old version is compiled
> against Gnome1 and the new one against Gnome2 ?

Sawfish is a window manager, then he manage yours windows...
The problem is configuration options. Sawfish 2 doesn't use all sawfish
1 options then if you reinstall sawfish 1 after sawfish 2 you lose some
configuration.

Christian