From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Oct 2 21:52:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194AA37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708B543E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 520023893678-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17wxyd-00063e-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:52:43 +0200 Received: from pD9017209.dip.t-dialin.net (520023893678-0001@[217.1.114.9]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17wxyS-1VWpMGC; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:52:32 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 07:53:11 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (Peter Ulrich Kruppa) To: Sven Esbjerg Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade In-Reply-To: <1033580626.390.7.camel@neumann.xbsd.net> Message-ID: <20021003073206.R19345-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 520023893678-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Oct 2002, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > Ons, 2002-10-02 kl. 21:13 skrev Peter Ulrich Kruppa: > > > Gnome2 is far from being stable. > > Sic! If you need something stable you have to use gnome"1" > > anyway. So - Joe - give us the real thing. I will continue to get > > on everybody's nerves with stupid questions :-) > > Huh? On my dual PIII running FreeBSD from 4.0 to 4.6.2 (and current) > Gnome1 has never been near stable. In fact KDE has never been stable so > Gnome2 is the first stable desktop environment on this machine. That > said it's not flawless - SCSI devices doesn't work with gnome > applications (ie. gnome-cd). Yes, one has to consider these differences. I am running a single user, single CPU machine with ordinary IDE drives. For me gnome1 was stable and functional. Gnome2 is stable (no crashing, no freezing yet, Nautilus works faster than ever) but installation and configuration easily can become painful. > I don't find this a stupid question. Please excuse my poor English. I wanted to say: Running an experimental enviroment forces _me_ to ask many stupid questions. Uli. > I think it's rather nice that > somebody considers the consequences of changing a port like this. Seeing > what happened with mozilla (calling 1.1 devel) I find his question > REALLY nice. > > I would prefer if Gnome-2.1 is either -devel or not in the ports tree at > all. > > > Sven > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message