Debian unstable: problems during migration from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2
Hi,
I migrated from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2 (*) yesterday and here are the
problems I encountered. I am willing to report the problems but I am not
sure to which package they pertain. If you got ideas how to fix the
remaining ones, please do contact me :)
[Some problems were related to the fact that I was using wmaker, which
is not a 'pure' Gnome Window Manager.]
- first I encountered bug 178956 [1] which is supposed to be fix but the
new package for gnome-desktop-data doesn't seem to have been uploaded
and I had to manually remove gnome-help (using dpkg).
- I lost my default window manager at startup (wmaker). I fixed the
problem by adding a window manager in the session applications to
startup but I am not sure it is the correct fix. Should I put it
elsewhere? I didn't find any gnome panel to change my window manager
settings as I used to have in Gnome 1.4. Sawfish seems to be the only
supported WM.
- I lost my mouse acceleration settings. Was at maximum, spent 5 minutes
trying to reach the window to tune it down :) Really annoying.
- I had duplicate launchers on my top gnome panels. Removed them
manually.
- lost some panels (e.g. e-sound manager). Do I miss a package?
- lost icons for some panels (at startup one complains about missing
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-battery.png). Do I miss a package?
- lost placement of all icons on desktop. Now everything is on the left.
- lost icons related to file types (all icons are identical on my
desktop and in nautilus, really annoying)
- lost workspace configuration (had 4, handled by wmaker, got 1)
- lost applications at startup (was probably handled by wmaker, not
gnome)
- lost default xterm setting (was Xterm was defaulted to Gnome Terminal)
- gthumb crashes
jerome@expresso> gthumb
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
gthumb: relocation error: gthumb: undefined symbol: __cmpdi2
- sensible-browser complains upon closing
jerome@expresso> sensible-browser
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
** CRITICAL **: file
/tmp/galeon-1.2.7/build/upstream/src/mozilla/mozilla.cpp: line 591
(gboolean mozilla_print_preview_close(GaleonEmbed *)): assertion
`embed->wrapper != NULL' failed.
- I also find yelp extremely slow
Attached the list of my gnome packages obtained doing a 'dpkg -l | grep
gnome > gnome.list'
Hope it helps.
I still have some packages to install.
(*) Yes I missed gnome 2.0, waiting too much for it to be stable :)
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178956&archive=no
--
Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) <lacostej@frisurf.no>
CoffeeBreaks
ii dia-gnome 0.90-2 Diagram editor (GNOME version)
rc gaim-gnome 0.59.7-1 GPL multi-protocol instant messenger client
ri gnome-admin 1.0.3-14 Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp)
ii gnome-applets 2.2.0-1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel
ii gnome-apt 0.4.1-1 graphical package manager
ii gnome-audio 1.4.0-5 Audio files for Gnome
ii gnome-bin 1.4.2-11 Miscellaneous binaries used by GNOME
ii gnome-control- 2.2.0-2 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME 2
ii gnome-core 20 the essentials of an integrated, easy to use
ii gnome-desktop- 2.2.0-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps
ii gnome-doc-tool 1.0-6 Tools, stylesheets and DTDs for GNOME.
rc gnome-help 1.4.2-1 GNOME help browser
ii gnome-help-dat 1.4.2-1 GNOME help browser data
ii gnome-libs-dat 1.4.2-11 Data for GNOME libraries
ii gnome-media 2.1.5-1 Gnome 2 Media Utilities
ii gnome-mime-dat 2.0.1-1 base MIME and Application database for GNOME
ii gnome-panel 2.2.0-2 Launch and/or dock GNOME 2 applications
ii gnome-panel-da 2.2.0-2 Common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii gnome-pilot 0.1.71-4 A GNOME applet for management of your Palm P
ii gnome-pim 1.4.9-1 Calendar and address book for GNOME.
ii gnome-session 2.2.0.1-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-spell 0.5-3 GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking
ii gnome-system-m 2.0.3-2 Process viewer and system resource monitor f
ii gnome-terminal 2.2.0-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
ii gnome-users-gu 1.4.1.1-2 GNOME User's Guide
ii gnome-utils 2.2.0.3-1 GNOME desktop utilities
ii gnome2-user-gu 2.0.4-1 GNOME 2 User's Guide
ii gnomemeeting 0.96.0-1 H323 Compatible Netmeeting clone for the Gno
ii libglade-gnome 0.17-2.7 Library to load .glade files at runtime (Gno
ii libgnome-deskt 2.2.0-2 Utility library for loading .desktop files -
ii libgnome-perl 0.7008-1.7 Perl module for the gnome and zvt libraries.
ii libgnome-pilot 0.1.71-4 Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii libgnome-vfs-c 1.0.5-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries comm
ii libgnome-vfs0 1.0.5-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries
ii libgnome2-0 2.2.0.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime files
ii libgnome2-comm 2.2.0.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - common files
ii libgnome32 1.4.2-11 The GNOME libraries
ii libgnomecanvas 2.2.0.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display - runtime
ii libgnomecanvas 2.2.0.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display - common
ii libgnomemm1.2- 1.2.4-1 C++ wrapper for GNOME 1 (shared library)
ii libgnomeprint- 0.37-2 The GNOME Print architecture - binary files
ii libgnomeprint- 0.37-2 The GNOME Print architecture - data files
ii libgnomeprint1 0.37-2 The GNOME Print architecture - runtime libra
ii libgnomeprint2 2.2.1-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - runtime f
ii libgnomeprint2 2.2.1-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - data file
ii libgnomeprintu 2.2.1-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture User Interf
ii libgnomeprintu 2.2.1-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture User Interf
ii libgnomesuppor 1.4.2-11 The GNOME libraries (Support libraries)
ii libgnomeui-0 2.2.0.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - run
ii libgnomeui-com 2.2.0.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - com
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.2-11 The GNOME libraries (User Interface)
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.2.0-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries (for
ii libgnomevfs2-c 2.2.0-2 The GNOME virtual file-system library common
ii libobgnome0 1.0.40-4 Objective-C - GNOME bindings
ii ooqstart-gnome 0.8.3-5 OpenOffice QuickStarter applet for GNOME
ii python-gnome 1.4.4-7 PyGNOME -- Python bindings for GNOME.
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