Re: Can someone provide a sensible plan for GNOME in Debian, please? [Was: Bug#158165]
<quote who="Christian Marillat">
> > It's not a case of the terminal 'not working' -> it doesn't interoperate
> > with the rest of the desktop.
>
> Then you don't tell me what exactly doesn't interoperate with the rest
> of the desktop.
(Well, I'm hoping that as a user of GNOME 2, you'd grok the problems
already.)
> > It's one thing to have 1.x applications such as Evolution running under G2D,
> > but having critical components of either desktop release running together?
> > Not sensible at all, and Debian shouldn't be making that mistake *for* its
> > users.
>
> And you think that nautilus 2 in unstable is a good idea ?
Not if it's going to be installed along side other GNOME 1.x desktop
components, no.
> People are starting to file bug report #158596 because nautilus 2 doesn't work
> correctly with the G1 panel.
Which is perfectly reasonable - piecemeal additions of G2D components into a
G1 desktop is not a good idea. I've been saying this all along.
- Jeff
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