Re: XD2

[James Strandboge <jamie@tpptraining.com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 10:09, Ghe Rivero wrote:
> Hi!
> 	We know that most of Ximian Desktop are simply patches that will be
> integrated in gnome soon, but for the moment, woody is the stable
> release in Debian and there is no gnome2 (well, there are un-officials
> packages, but not really stables). So our plans are to make a "stable"
> release of gnome2 (ximian based) for woody.

I am going to assume that when you said"'there are un-officials
packages, but not really stables", you meant that they didn't install on
woody without other unoffical packages (ie xfree86).  I, and quite a few
others, have found my gnome2.2 backport quite stable (in terms of
stability)! ;-)

How is your ximian based gnome2 for woody going to be anymore "stable"
than my backport (or any other for that matter)?  Woody has Official
packages and anything outside of those are Unofficial.  Semantics aside,
I would be interested in hearing how you deal with the Xfree86 4.1 issue
(as shipped with woody).  Gnome2.2 really needs at least 4.2 for libxft2
and libxrender (though I have recompiled a few libraries to get my
backport to load on 4.1, I don't know how stable (as in stability) it
really is day to day).

Jamie

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