Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 13:53:24 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Observations on Gnome-2.14 Message-ID: <44564B14.3010606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060501162434.371EC45053@ptavv.es.net> References: <20060501162434.371EC45053@ptavv.es.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Oberman wrote: > I have one system running V6-stable that is now running Gnome-2.14. Some > things are really nice about it, but there are some oddities and some > things that need touching. > > First, an easy one...netspeed_applet needs to be rebuilt. I think a bump > of PORTREVISION is in order. This has been done. > > When I first started 2.14, I got messages that several icons > (gnome-calculator, logout, screen-lock) could not be found and were > displayed as white icons with a red 'X'. But after acknowledging the > message, all of the icons appeared and work fine. I have not seen this on any of my machines. > > This might be a race as I am running i386 on an AMD dual-core 4400+ > Athlon-64 processor and it may be getting something done before things > are ready. This is also intermittent. It happens about half the time > when I start Gnome. (I use startx, not gdm.) Maybe, but that seems fishy. I guess gnome-settings-daemon could be taking a long time to startup. > > On several start operations the icons in the weather applet are > missing. Other times they appear. Probably the same "can't find icon" > issue. > > gnome-terminal has sometimes crashed on logout from Gnome. I have not > tried to debug this at all. I do see that the contents of > .gnome2/session no longer have information on all of the gnome-terminal > windows. Just a simple command, so I guess gnome-terminal is storing > this somewhere else. (I need to find out where to debug why at least one > window never restarts.) For GDM sessions, it's ~/.xsession-errors. I thought startx would output to the calling VTY. > > Sessions are a bit messed up. As already reported, all manually > startup-sessions are gone after the upgrade and must be re-entered. No > longer is there an ordering option, but this might be settable via the > "Current Session" tab. I'll paly around with it if I get a little time. > > The logout tool no longer has a check-box to save the session. I THINK I > saved it by going into the "Sessions" prefs and selecting to > automatically save the session on logout and logging out. I then logged > back in and de-selected that option. There is still an option (which is > selected) to "Ask on logout". It appears to be a no-op in 2.14, though. Correct. It looks like they axed this for 2.14. As a workaround, gnome-session-save --gui will save your current session. > Noise level issue: we really need a FreeBSD splash. The default Gnome > splash is just too boring looking. If you build it, we will vote. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEVksUb2iPiv4Uz4cRAk9iAJ9aLmEu4M6/STKHq3mkWVbEos6HywCeIR83 58YAviiKGiLN2qV4iHbTJUc= =cbk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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