On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:04:49 PM Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > >>>> with acroread (on start): > >>>> > >>>> (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > >>>> module_path: "xfce", > >>> > >>> The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. > >> > >> If I try to install this package (i386), I get: > > What's normal. gtk2-engines-xfce doesn't contain Multi-Arch stanza in > > it's description. Hence - you cannot install more than one architecture > > of this package at the same time. > > > > Please note that I wrote 'libraries from the package', not the package. > > > > Quick and dirty way to fix the issue is to download gtk2-engines-xfce, > > then invoke (as root): > > > > dpkg -x gtk2-engines-xfce_3.0.1-2_amd64.deb /usr/local/ > > mv /usr/local/usr/* /usr/local > > rm -rf /usr/local/usr > > > > This setup WILL break once Jessie's gtk2-engines-xfce package will be > > updated. > > > > Probably (I can not test it right now) more-or-less correct way to fix > > the issue is to launch acroread with GTK theme that does not require xfce > > engine (for example): > > > > GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc acroread > > > > Reco > > After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. > I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, > 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like it and > have never liked Gnome. Am I missing something here? > > Gary R.
I've never used gnome; I've never liked it. I started using KDE back around 2003/2004. I used it until it became unusable (sometime after 4.0 was released and 3.x was abandoned). Konqueror is no longer the most standards-compliant browser available; it mis- renders things, breaks, and crashes. Kmail can only launch konqueror (that I've found). KDE has become a bloated pig of a suite that slowed down my quad Phenom-II. I switched to XFCE. Even though it isn't perfect and doesn't do everything I want, it otherwise works well and works efficiently, and generally stays out of my way. I have 16GiB RAM, 4 CPUs and 3+TiB disk space on my desktop. I have better things to spend CPU cycles on than eye candy, than a DE that wipes my butt when I'm done. Mechanics, machinists, cooks, bakers and woodworkers don't have fu-fu tools that make them feel good. They have tools that get the job done. Without breaking. Sometimes stressed well beyond their nominal limits. Computer users deserve the same. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312061826.34016.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
