Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Christian Marillat writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"):
> 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

That shouldn't be too hard surely ?  There must be a single place
where that path is specified, or at most a few places.

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

You can specify a different domain_name in the textdomain() call; then
the .mo files (have to) have different names.

> 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.

That seems like a very bad way of handling configuration changes.
Also, let me just clarify: are you disagreeing with Raul's assertion
here:

 On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Raul Miller wrote:
 > Some of these issues are subtle [for example: sawfish, where there's no
 > difference between sawfish in gnome1 vs. gnome2 but there is a difference
 > in what libraries it's (dynamically) linked against].

?

Thanks,
Ian.