Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 09:17, John W. M. Stevens wrote:
> I upgraded from stable to testing, in order to be able to start using
> Gnome2, only to find that there was no good way to get a complete,
> usable Gnome2 installation.
Try to get to Sid; I think Sid's Gnome is much better.
> 1) Fonts. They are really ugly, and it seems that the previous
> defaults were just ignored.
I use ttf-freefont for the fonts and xfs-xtt for the font server.
TrueType fonts are good on Gnome2.
> 3) It seems impossible to figure out what will conflict with what,
> without actually trying just about every combination. Incompatible
> packages are all stuffed into the gnome section,
I believe that's because you use testing, which has mixed Gnomes inside.
> 4) There SHOULD be a way to run both Gnome and Gnome2 on the same
> machine,
With some costs, maybe.
Oki
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