Re: Bug#154950: Thoughts on GNOME 2 transition
Le Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:14:18PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait:
> patching gconf. Is there anything else?
Some Gnome1.4 applets have not been ported (maybe won't be).
> IMO unstable users get what they paid for: a distribution which is not
> ready for release and which has annoyances every now and then. If
> people can *really* find release critical stuff which should keep these
> knew packages out of a future release, I'm sure we can all argue like
> the civilized persons we are, can't we? :-)
I agree with you but not everybody does, hence the -committee request.
> personalized desktop look[0]. Is it really that hard to write a script
> that gets this 90% right?
Not really, but it's a boring work.
> do you have to look at it on an application-by-application basis?
AFAIK, yes. But the scripts should certainly be centralized and launched
from a common place (gnome-session or similar probably).
> Is someone already working on this? Can I help?
Christian worked on it for the desktop itself and a few apps like
gnome-terminal.
You can certainly help him, yes. He requested testers for his scripts.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com
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