On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > 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.] > > - 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. It seems that GNOME2 has drop this particular configuration option, sadly. > - lost some panels (e.g. e-sound manager). Do I miss a package? Panels or applets? > - lost icons for some panels (at startup one complains about missing > /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-battery.png). Do I miss a package? I don't have this file either; try packages.debian.org. > - lost placement of all icons on desktop. Now everything is on the left. I guess nautilus2 doesn't forward-port nautilus's configs... > - lost icons related to file types (all icons are identical on my > desktop and in nautilus, really annoying) As above. > - lost workspace configuration (had 4, handled by wmaker, got 1) Yeah...I use sawfish, so I got to create workspaces for me; they showed up on the pager thingy just fine. > - lost applications at startup (was probably handled by wmaker, not > gnome) Yeah, maybe. GNOME also does it's own session thingy though. > - lost default xterm setting (was Xterm was defaulted to Gnome Terminal) Weird, I thought GNOME2 itself would convert GNOME1.4 settings. Possibly file a wishlist bug? > - gthumb crashes > jerome@expresso> gthumb > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > gthumb: relocation error: gthumb: undefined symbol: __cmpdi2 Ouch. Probably a known bug, search the BTS for that symbol, I guess... > - 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. Weird...as above, I guess. > - I also find yelp extremely slow Not sure, never used it... -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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