Re: Progeny -> woody?
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:40:15AM -0500, Jesse Goerz (jgoerz@bellsouth.net) said something like:
> > Can anyone thta has atempted this give me some feedback?
> > Sucess, _and_ failure stories apprecited. Also some cometary
> > on what nice features might have disapeared in this "upgrade".
>
> The only things I've noticed so far is the desktop icons refuse
> to be anything but folders, and the font which describes them
> also refuses to display unless you select the folder.
I had no major problems with the dist-upgrade from Progeny to woody.
Like Jesse mentioned, my desktop did show only folder icons so I
deleted (renamed actually, then deleted a few days later when I was
sure everything was ok) the .gnome and .gnome-desktop directories
in my home dir, logged out, then logged backed in and Gnome rebuilt
the desktop with the correct icons.(found this fix by searching the
list archives) I did have to add the few additional icons I had before
but that was easy.
> woody's version of gdm isn't as "pretty" and it removes the
> System menu so you can't reboot from the login screen. You will
> have to use the config utility for gdm to fix that (can't
> remember the name of it).
that didn't happen to me....ummmm. yeah the default may not look as
nice but in a few minutes I had changed the background, font, and image
file so it actually looks better than the old Progeny one.
> Other than that, the only things I've noticed have all been
> talked about on the lists which makes me assume they are woody
> issues, not progeny->woody upgrade issues.
>
For me the process was very smooth...I just had to rerun dist-upgrade
a few times until everything was installed...it has been a very nice
upgrade
My only tip would be to make sure you know which modules your kernel
is using and don't try using modconf at 3 AM after a long day :)
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