Joris Huizer said:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Just a quick question:
> Why is gnome 1.4 installed by default rather than
> gnome 2 ? Are there security reasons or whatever ?
>
> Oh, and how can I install gnome 2 if there are no
> (serious) problems ?

I don't think gnome2 was available when woody froze? When a
debian distro goes into 'freeze' nothing new is permitted other
then bugfixes. Things such as gnome2 are especially forbidden
since it is such a big intrusive change.

from the complaints I've read on this list about gnome2 in
sid and/or sarge I think it was a good decision, it seems even
today gnome2 is not ready(at least in debian).

I'm not a gnome user, though I do rely on many GTK apps, phoenix,
mozilla, gnome-terminal, gimp, gnotepad+, staroffice are my
most used applications.

gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT
the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience
holds will be in approx another year and a half. That is assuming there
isn't a gnome 3 by then :) I think the debian folks are working on
speeding up the release cycle, so the next major rev may come out
sooner.

there may be 3rd party packages for gnome2 available for woody,
I'm not sure.


nate





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