Re: Gnome 2.4 for Sid; done
Hi,
The top panel disappears and never comes out again after "auto hiding"
enabled. This problem still exists when gnome is started with a newly
created user.
Regards
Wang WenRui
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:26:52PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Packaging 2.4 take exactly one day. We don't need 2 months to push
> > 2.4 in unstable.
>
> and was right.
>
> Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> answered:
> > Debian is not about providing crappy packages in one day. We are
> > committed to provide a high-quality distribution, and it of course
> > requires high-quality packages. Not one-day packages.
>
> and was right.
>
>
> But lots of people wants to play with Gnome 2.4 and its wonderful
> gnome-about application so I did it.
>
> I coordinated myself here:
> http://www.entrouvert.be/~fred/gnome-2.4/gnome-2.4-summary.html
>
> (list created from http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallation.html)
>
> And produced debs (only for i386) that are available with:
> deb http://apt.bxlug.be/ gnome2.4-sid/
>
> The process was to download current Debian package and current Gnome
> release and to apply patches from the first to the second.
>
> Random notes:
>
> - built against XFree86 4.3 from experimental
> - not Debian-quality packages
> - upgrade fails; need to run apt-get -f install once to correct some
> overwriting files
> - tries not to diverge from sid packages but:
> - librsvg now depends on libcroco (I thought it was necessary)
> - libbonobo creates both libbonobo and bonobo-activation packages
> - control-center builds fontilus and I put themus in a separate
> package
> - sources are available on http://apt.bxlug.be/gnome2.4-sid/sources
> but my upload rate is low so I sometimes only uploaded the .diff.gz
> and not the upstream .tar.gz
> - Gnome 2.4 feels faster on my computer and I'm happy with it
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Frederic
>
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