On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28 -0700, Michael M. wrote: [...]
> I found a few problems on my system (Lenny/testing) after I replaced fam > with gamin: > > 1) Menus in OO.org took many seconds to open -- at least 15, perhaps > 20. This was extremely irritating and made OO.org a pain to use. > > 2) The GNOME trash applet no longer updated to show when there were > items in the trash. I could no longer empty the trash from the panel. > Not such a big deal, but I typically have most windows on most desktops > maximized so I don't usually make use of any icons on the desktop. So I > found it convenient to empty the trash from the panel. > > 3) Nautilus was considerably slower to respond to any attempts to open > a new window. The problem wasn't as severe as the problem with OO.org These seem to be pretty serious problems, worthy of being reported as bugs. I cannot comment any further on these issues since I don't use Gnome. > Restoring fam and removing gamin put things back to normal. But the > reason I installed gamin in the first place is that exaile requires it, > so in the end I decided to remove a lot of GNOME and am using Openbox > instead. OO.org works fine with gamin, as long as you aren't using it > under GNOME. If you use it under GNOME, it appears you need fam, or > will face some major irritation. I still use the GNOME panel, mainly > because I love Tomboy and find a few other features of that panel > appealing, but I no longer use the Trash applet nor the trash bin at > all. I'm no longer using Nautilus, though it is still installed. I think it is unlikely that such obvious problems would go unnoticed by the (Debian-)Gnome community. Could you be missing some recommended packages? You could run aptitude search '!~i(~dgnome|~dgtk|~dopenoffice)~RBrecommends:~i' and check if anything suspicious turns up, for example something related to gnome-vfs. (This search command should find all not installed packages which have "gnome", "gtk" or "openoffice" in their description and which would satisfy a currently unfulfilled recommendation of some installed package.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
