From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 13:30:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AAD14ED2 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 11YEkb-00077D-00; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:30:25 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA20012; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:30:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:30:20 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it? To: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <99100408410801.37693@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4-Oct-99 at 06:41, Tony (tbrock@mail.phoenix.net) wrote: > I see many screenshots from the Linux community where people use this > glorified toolbar but from my experience, it's most reliable feature is > creating .core files. > > ... > > My question is this: Are any people in the FreeBSD community using the > GNOME port happily? Did I skip a fundamental /home/userdir setup script? > > > It's not important that I get it working, I just like to know why things > aren't working as they should. I've been using it for a while, and the basic functionality has been pretty stable. Some of the programs core dump on launch from the menu; but the basic panel doesn't crash on me. What I have noticed though is that it seems to be -very- sensitive about exactly which versions of the various support libraries are in use when you build it. When I've updated to new GNOME ports, I've found it best to track down all of the dependancy trees and update -everything- that has a newer version, or is dependant on something that has a newer version. And the only safe way I've found to do that is to uninstall the whole pile (and, of course, everything else that depends on any of the uninstalled packages); and then build it back from the ground up. I do this one port at a time instead of letting make handle the dependancies. (This is a big enough PITA that I don't upgrade that often. My last update was 9 July. I'll be trying the current versions in a few days when I upgrade the OS to 3.3.) Oh, and I'm also using the Gtk themes with it; which probably doesn't add to the stability... -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message