On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > configuration systems we have now?
Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else? >> 2) The Gnome Settings Daemon was not installed, and it repeatedly >> complains about that lack. I can't find any package that indicates >> that it might contain this semi-mythical daemon. > > I think that's because you need the GNOME Control Center, and that > hasn't made it in to testing yet. Core pieces of GNOME2 haven't been > moved from unstable to testing, while other pieces have. You're thinking correctly. This "semi-mythical daemon" lives in gnome-control-center. IMO this package should be a dependency of gnome-session. Otherwise fools like myself forget installing it... > I'm not sure that GNOME 1 and 2 could easily coexist even if the > packages did allow it. They have different pieces of infrastructure, and > GNOME applications tend to start up any infrastructure they need that > isn't already running. And then they leave it running when they exit. My remaining GNOME 1 apps continue to work fine under GNOME 2. The bigger problem is that the GNOME 2 development seemingly involved dropping as many options/preferences as possible... :-( -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
