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I'm glad to be able to finally(!) announce the new Gnome 2 Desktop as |
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available in Gentoo Linux. |
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The Gnome 2 release was announced today; |
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Announcement: http://gnome.org/pr-gnome20.html |
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More info: http://gnome.org/start/2.0/ |
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Release notes: http://gnome.org/start/2.0/releasenotes.html |
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With this we are the first Linux distribution to support the Gnome 2 |
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desktop, and it has been many months of quite hard work for me and the |
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others who are involved in getting this project to run smoothly for all |
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users. |
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Installation and Update : |
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The update process should be very smooth for users, and this has been a |
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major caveat for us, but we think we have succeeded. To install the |
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Gnome 2 desktop, you only have to : |
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emerge gnome |
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Portage will care for download, build and installation. If you have a |
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previous Gnome 1.4 installation, portage will stop and complain that |
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"gnome-core" is blocking, to solve this issue you have to: |
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emerge unmerge gnome-core |
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This will remove the conflicts encountered. |
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Caveats : |
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We are shipping Gnome 2 with Metacity as the preferred |
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windowmanager, because sawfish wasn't working for an extended period of |
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time. Sawfish 2.0 works now, but we retained Metacity because it got |
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more testing in Gentoo than Sawfish did. You can at any time: |
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emerge sawfish |
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and choose to use that as your default window manager in Gnome. |
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Compability : |
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Gnome 1.4 Applications will continue to work with your Gnome 2 desktop. |
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Gnome 1.4 Applets will not work, and programs that use applets will not |
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run. This is a problem that we are working on. |
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Debugging : |
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To help the Gnome project in the struggle to develop a solid desktop |
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environment, we ship Gnome with debugging enabled. This will be |
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disabled in a minor update within two weeks. We hope that you will |
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cooperate and help further the development by providing bug reports to |
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the Gnome project. This can be done at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ or by |
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using "bug-buddy", the automated bug reporting tool. Please, forward |
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your impressions, opinions, ideas and crashes to the Gnome project. |
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Thanks : |
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The build and install process should be solid thanks to a large amount |
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of Gentoo developers and testers, especially Gabriele Giorgetti |
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<stroke@g.o> who helped me on maintaining and updating Gnome 2 |
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as well as handling bugreports, and Martin Schlemmer |
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<azarah@g.o> who got sawfish working. |
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Regards, |
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Spider (D.m.D. Ljungmark) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Gnome 2 Maintainer and Packager. |
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(http://gentoo.org/~spider/)(Gnome 2 FAQ. And configuration Guide) |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant |
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