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Re: Gnome2 for woody



>> "RH" == Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> Le Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:33:31PM -0400, Colin Walters écrivait:

[...]

> We'll never be able to test those scripts in a automated
> way. Packages' scripts are not allowed to modify user configuration
> files in $HOME. We can provide the scripts but we must ask our users
> to launch them.  Eventually through a debconf question but really,
> adding a debconf interaction to all Gnome packages just because of
> that ...

debconf isn't very usefull in that case if the sysadmin ins't the main
user. Really a bad idea.

> You should really consider that Gnome2 is a new desktop and that you
> should take the time to configure it. An helper script may be provided
> somewhere in /usr/share/doc/ for quickstart in that configuration but
> we'll never have a configuration script that will handle all Gnome
> applications ...

Yes, this was my idea. I'm working on scripts for the folowing package
gnome-terminal (mostly done), gnome-panel, gnome-session and
control-center.

Christian


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