On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > John, > > I installed straight to testing (but using a stable netinstall CD) a > couple months ago. When gnome2 into was released into it from unstable a > couple weeks ago I ran into similar issues. I am looking forward to > watching this thread to see what the expert insight to this is. My > opinion is that Gnome2 'works' but it doesn't 'work right'. Isn't that > what testing is for though?
That is what I thought, too, but Mr. Pytel indicates that testing is less stable than unstable . . . why, he didn't say, only that "that is what you get for running testing". > To test for bugs that aren't critical and > prepare for the next stable version that does 'work right'. There are > gnome2 version packages that are still in held up in unstable that I > think maybe should have held up the whole gnome2 upgrade, but I don't > know that much about the details to make this statment as anything more > than a personal opinion. It does seem as if a mistake has been made here, by putting a partial set into testing. It doesn't seem likely that testing can be done properly with only a partial set. > Here is a link about ideas for moving debian to gnome2, but I didn't get > a good feeling of resolution: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=154950 Thank you. I'll read through this. > I also get the error message from the gnome settings daemon. I think > it's due to nautilus being gnome and not the gnome2 version. The gnome2 > version of nautilus seems to be held back in unstable with some > automated build errors. Ah! That answers that question. Thank you. > I also have some interestingly scaled and rendered fonts in some > applications. On this page > (http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/testing/2003/05/msg00058.html) > there is mention of the local affecting fonts. I should check my local. > I dont remember which I chose, other than knowing it wasn't 'C'. This has been a very useful reply. Thank you! My locale is indeed C. I'll read through the information at this link, as well. Thanks, John S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
