[ILUG] ximian gnome 1.4, first impressions...

[Liam Bedford]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:46:02PM +0100, kevin lyda came forth with:
> ok, snarfed ximian gnome this weekend.  first i'll cover bad things.
> i see these so far:
> 
>     1) six hour download (and no cd's to buy yet)
>     2) installer has an fd leak.  it will cause your root fs to run out
>        of space during the install if it's less then around 300megs.
>        once the installer exits the space will free up.  link /tmp up
>        to an fs with enough space and you'll be fine (just reset it).
>     3) can't find the gnome control center easily in the default
>        configuration.
>     4) had to delete ~/.mozilla in order to stop mozilla from dumping
>        core at startup..

well, I had fun getting it to install on a progeny machine (my laptop).

Mozilla still takes ages to load (the hard drive is allegedly quite
slow, must fiddle with that), and red-carpet won't run, so I can't install
evolution (grrr them making it dependent on red-carpet to download..
spose I could try to parse their xml files) (red-carpet core dumps
and I haven't been able to build it from source yet).

apart from that, it's lovely and maccy (curved corners)
L.
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