On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG scribbled: > Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> writes: > > > Note one thing (this is the remark I was referring to above) - it is not > > always possible to preserve some settings merely because they might cease to > > exist in the newer packages or they might've changed their meaning and > > the effect on the package they have. > > Of course this is true; if the exceptions are where it isn't logically > meaningful, then of course there is no upgrade. If you take a closer look at the GNOME2 packages you will notice that many options went away and, I suppose, it's a hard thing to migrate the packages. > I have never used a version of gnome-terminal that did not have a font > configuration option, but this is now like the fourth time I've had to > go reconfigure the damn thing since I started using Christian's gnome > packages. I've never liked gnome-terminal very much but I also noticed, running it from time to time to test how things behave there, that there indeed are problems with the upgrades in that respect... > And the current font selector for gnome-terminal is *less* functional > than the old one, worse yet. Yes, I can but agree on that one... I miss the option (always can resort to gtkfontsel, though) of selecting fonts using the full spec. regards, marek
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