Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian Marillat writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > The pixmaps path is harcoded in gnome libraies, this imply we need to > recompile all gnome2 applications who use stock gnome pixmaps or store > pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps That shouldn't be too hard surely ? There must be a single

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Christian Marillat
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Marillat writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What other [conflicting] files are involved ? > > Pixmaps files, .mo files, documentation files. > These can be put in different directories, sure

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian Marillat writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What other [conflicting] files are involved ? > > Pixmaps files, .mo files, documentation files. These can be put in different directories, surely ? > > If the libraries are compatible, wh

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Christian Marillat
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raul Miller writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): [...] > Can Gnome1 programs run on a Gnome2 desktop and vice versa ? If not > then we could invent a standard wrapper script that chooses the right > version based on the current desktop. No for al

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > Have we ever offered that choice with KDE ? Why would you want to > provide that choice for GNOME ? The question hasn't arisen with KDE. Either this was a mistake, or new versions of KDE are better in sufficiently nearly all situati

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Raul Miller writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > That said: Ian's proposal is incomplete. It only addresses package > names, and does not address file paths/names for files which are the same > (or are named the same) in both gnome1 and gnome2. For executable programs, of course, we can u

Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Raul Miller writes ("Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"): > That said: Ian's proposal is incomplete. It only addresses package > names, and does not address file paths/names for files which are the same > (or are named the same) in both gnome1 and gnome2. You're right, and I hereby withdraw the prop