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ULB GNOME 2.8.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-desktop dept.

riggwelter writes "FootNotes reports the availability of GNOME 2.8.0 packages for SUSE Linux. For the first time, a new GNOME desktop release is available for SUSE within a couple of weeks of the source release."

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  1. I might be trolling but... by El+Icaro · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even though I started with suse I keep finding it more and more bloated (notice i'm not mentioning any desktop environments) no matter with what UI you use it. It also seems to move in the madrake direction. It is starting to use it's own personalized all-in-one configuration/setup utilities which lock out more "expert" user options. If I want to edit something in another distro I look for the file in /etc, here I have to look for diferent suse config files, and check to see why X option is greyed out in yast and then try to find documentation as to why it happens. I usually prefer enabling or disabling an option from the config file and look in the log, than just receive a "sorry, can't do that" answer (I'm a bit of a masochist ;)).

    1. Re:I might be trolling but... by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Yast reads and writes to files in /etc/sysconfig. The rc files all also read those same files. There are no "suse config" files, at least no more so than in any other *nix.

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  2. Re:And the reason... by riggwelter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, no, ULB GNOME is a community provided effort, independent of SuSE/Novell

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  3. Building for other distros using src rpms? by Chilltowner · · Score: 1

    Has anyone tried rebuilding the src rpms from here to get them to work for other rpm distros like the Redhats? Or is there another good source of src rpms to use? I used to get my RH 9 gnome rpms from Ximian, but they seem to have stopped updating for 9. Alas.

    1. Re:Building for other distros using src rpms? by El+Icaro · · Score: 1

      About this, but completely off topic (what a paradox, huh?), a linux newb (somewhat) has a question about rpms.

      Is there a way of using other package systems with slackware? Like emerge from Gentoo for example.

  4. They've beat Slackware by r_jensen11 · · Score: 1

    Beat them over the head with a stick.... C'mon, I don't want to end up compiling all of the packages just to find out that the official Slackware ones were posted the day after I finish compiling and installing.

    1. Re:They've beat Slackware by reallocate · · Score: 1

      Dropline's release should be happening soon. It's put out two release candidates. Drop by the Dropline forums to see what's going on.

      One issue for Slackware, and Dropline, is that some of the new goodies in Gnome 2.8 use hal and dbus, which require a 2.6 kernel. Slack runs fine with a 2,6 kernel, but ships with a 2.4 kernel.

      I wouldn't be surprised to see Slackware move to Gnome 2.8, KDE 3.3 and a 2.6 kernel via a point release.

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  5. Re:And the reason... by reallocate · · Score: 1

    Actually, that "community" is one busy Brit named James Ogley.

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  6. LIke It, With Quibbles by reallocate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I installed it last night on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Appears to be very well done.

    Quibbles: It doesn't include hal and dbus; OpenOffice won't launch ("...libvcl645li.so: undefined symbol: XineramaIsActive"); install instructions seem out of synch and in need of updating.

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    1. Re:LIke It, With Quibbles by reallocate · · Score: 1

      Just discovered that OpenOffice isn't part of ULB_Gnome. Must have been dragged in from one of the other sources in the suggested source.list.

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    2. Re:LIke It, With Quibbles by Yusuf+Smith · · Score: 1

      I installed it last night on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Appears to be very well done.

      You mean, it didn't mess up your Nautilus icons, leaving a blank-paper icon above everything?

    3. Re:LIke It, With Quibbles by reallocate · · Score: 1

      Yes and no. I've now installed twice. The first install was over a complete 9.1 install. The desktop looked very good; one of the Smooth variations is the default theme. I added dbus and hal successfully, but broke things trying to install a volume manager that could. So, I re-installed a KDE-less SuSE and then reinstalled ULB. This time the root desktop was fine, but the user desktop was as you described: blank paper icons. Deleting every Gnome-related config file in my home directory didn't improve things. Eventually, I wiped that directory and recreated the user. That fixed the problem.

      ULB seems much more responsive than the standard SuSE desktop, which is consistent with my experience comparing Gnome to KDE. The display quality is just about the best I've seen on my hardware.

      ULB does not include dbus and hal, or, apparently, a volume manager compiled to use them. As a result, Gnome 2.8's automatic volume detection doesn't work. I.e., it doesn't detect a CD or know when an extracted tar file has created a new directory.

      And, Cogley's directions for using apt seem out of synch with this release and its sources.list file. I had to go through multiple iterations of updating and upgrading on both installs.

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