help with GNOME
I upgraded my debian installation from 2.0 to 2.1 using dselect and ftp.
I figured I'd try GNOME so I installed most everything I could figure
out that was GNOME related. (I find this installation process really
clumsy and error prone. Is there any way to indicate that I want to
install all of GNOME and have dselect do it? Will APT provide this
higher level install process?)
I tried to figure out how to use GNOME after installing but there's no
manpage info (are manpages defunct in debian and/or linux in general?).
I checked /usr/doc/gnome and found the README.Debian file which had a
hint of how to use. (Is this really the only doc on GNOME usage in
Debian?). This seems kind of obscure for most folks to figure out how to
use GNOME.
I started the gnome-session under fvwm95 and got a help browser which
gave some really basic info about some apps and startup but precious
little on the rest of the system including the gnome panel, gnome
control, gnome session editor, etc. Is the help browser just really out
of date?
I finally went to the GNOME.org site to retrieve the user guide (Is this
included in the debian installation somewhere? I didn't find anything
like it.)
So now my question is how come the debian gnome control, etc does appear
to have the functionality indicated in the GNOME User Guide? Is this
maybe a product of doing an upgrade instead of a clean install of
2.1? Are there other packages I need to install to get the full
functionality? If so where can I get the list of required and features
provided? Does GNOME just not work weel on debian and should I just go
with RedHat instead? (I get the feeling that GNOME integration with
RedHat is much better)
I've been using fvwm95 which seems much more useful and full featured
than GNOME. I have to assume given the excitement about GNOME that I am
missing the information to get a functional and featureful GNOME setup
in place. Can anyone provide a pointer to such info?
Thanks
John
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