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Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-the-future dept.

Bruha writes "Lewt over at Warcry News Network has written his review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are looking for a good desktop solution. He mentions this is a good product that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of most distro's."

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  1. What a horrible review. by Blymie · · Score: 5, Informative

    What a horrible review.

    This thing was all of 10 sentences, contains no detail, and just plain sucks.

    Can we have a _real_ review, by someone competent, please? Perhaps one that actually took more than 3 minutes to write, and has some detail?

    1. Re:What a horrible review. by SkArcher · · Score: 5, Informative

      You could try Here for a slightly more indepth review, or Here for a selection of screenshots.

      Or, perish the thought, you could try Here

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  2. RPM db conflict with RH9 by A5un · · Score: 5, Informative

    For Redhat 9 user, there is a serious problem with rpm db conflict. It has been reported here, so install at your own risk.

    1. Re:RPM db conflict with RH9 by forevermore · · Score: 4, Informative

      As has been suggested in that bug report, it's pretty easy to recompile the RPM without the "obseletes" clause. Well, for those of us redhat users who still remember how to compile things... Just `apt-get source db4` (or download the source your own way), do an `rpm -i` on it, which will place the spec into your redhat/SPECS directory. Then, just edit the .spec file, remove (or comment out) the "Obseletes: db1" clause and recompile with `rpmbuild -ba db4.spec`... viola! reinstall it and all of your dependency issues are fixed.. annoying to have to do this, though. that bug really needs to be resolved.

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  3. Changing default browser. by TheFlu · · Score: 4, Informative

    I searched for quite a while, trying to figure out how to change the default browser for XD2 from Galeon to Opera. I always like to write up tutorials on little things like this when I come across them, so you can find that info here.

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  4. Re:For systems without wget... by spydir31 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can download the installer and packages seperatly and point the installer at the files, the installer supports it. (though I can't vouch for how well, not having tried it.)
    find the files at one of the Mirrors

  5. From a real user's perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I installed it the day it came out. I've been mucking with it for a week now and have some observations.

    1) What is the "integration" with OpenOffice? Aside from a different splash screen? OK, my theme fonts come across to the user interface, and it uses Ximian icons now, but it loads (the first time) as slowly as ever.

    2) They should have left the GDM splash screen scheme alone. It took a while to figure out how to replace their splash screen with my old (custom) one.

    3) Mozilla is broken and shouldn't have been released. When on a page that uses javascript to open a smaller window (like TV Guide listings is where it can easily be reproduced) then sometimes the text in the child window is randomly truncated. There are other bugs but that's the most glaring.

    4) Ximian cripped Galeon so that it can no longer use themes!!! Bad Ximian.

    5) Ximian's installer destroys a users custom menus even when told to leave them alone. My RedHat "system tools" menu is gone, along with my Crossover Office menu. There's got to be an easy way to restore my old menus but I haven't found it yet.

    6) The RedHat "alert" icon no longer works. I miss it - it was a nice way to tell instantly if there were any updates (yeah I know, RedHat sends out emails for their updates, but I still miss it).

    7) There are some nice improvements like the "network proxy" setting that doesn't workin the default RedHat 9 install works now, so you only need to set the proxy once, and panel applets that need network access actually work now.

    8) I know this sounds harsh but overall I do like it. Bugs have been filed so we'll see how it goes in the next few weeks...