Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?
Thanks!
It helps to know why people are suggesting to not go with Ximian. I guess if
the same stuff is available via apt there's not much of a point.
Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaya Potter" <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "jennyw" <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>
Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?
> I used to use Ximian's gnome. However, using sid's gnome I don't see
> much difference b/w what I have and what they have. I think the Control
> Center is a little bit different (but big deal, same functionality) and
> the only thing that I saw on a ximian'ized redhat box that I didn't have
> was that battstatt applet (which is nicer than the default gnome one)
> which I packaged up, and I believe is available at
> http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/debian/
>
> I'd assume that if there are other things missing here and there people
> would more more than willing to package them up. It makes life much
> easier to get a major package like gnome directly from debian (i.e. if
> you ever want to install something that depends on gnome that ximian
> doesn't package you could run into some major conflicts)
>
> shaya
>
> On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 23:02, jennyw wrote:
> > I've seen some posts here saying that people should not install Ximian
Gnome
> > if they use Woody. Is there a reason why? I currently have Potato on a
> > system that I'm going to upgrade to Woody at one point. I was thinking
of
> > installing Ximian Gnome on it in the meantime ... is this going to cause
> > huge problems?
> >
> > Should I just upgrade to Woody and not even bother with Ximian in the
> > meantime?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jen
> >
> >
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