[Fwd: No panel apps or control center]

[Bill Laundrie <frogking cyberdude com>]

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• From: Edd Dumbill <edmundd heddley com>
• To: Bill Laundrie <frogking cyberdude com>
• Cc: Daniel A Scholnick dartmouth edu
• Subject: Re: No panel apps or control center
• Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:28:49 +0000

I've solved the problem!!! 

For some reason some CORBA bits of gnome 1.0 think they've
been installed in /opt/gnome.  My install is in /usr/local.
Just do:

mkdir /opt/gnome
ln -s /usr/local/share /opt/gnome/share
ln -s /usr/local/etc /opt/gnome/etc

And all should work OK - the problem was that capplets
and applets couldn't find their .gnorba files which are
in /opt/gnome/etc.

All works like a dream now!  Pleae feel free to forward
this to the gnome-list - I'm not currently subscribed to it.

regards

Edd.


On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:24:37PM -0600, Bill Laundrie wrote:
> Edd Dumbill wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Saw your post to the GNOME mailing list.  I have the same
> > problem too!! Have you managed to find a solution yet? It's
> > been driving me nuts!
> > 
> > thanks for any help
> 
> Well, I went back and installed some of the extra libs I had archived
> from older GNOME releases, and I can now add applets.  For the life of
> me I really can't remember WHICH libs they were, but if it would install
> side by side with my current libraries (without having to delete my new
> libs or without causing any interference), I installed it.  It seems
> that the programmers are forgetting some needed stuff with the new
> release.  Perhaps we should suggest that one of them actually take the
> time to do a fresh RH 5.2 Linux install and try it themselves instead of
> pooh-poohing people who are really in need of help!  I STILL can't get
> the control center to work, but later tonight when I have some time I'm
> going to try to find an older RPM version of control-center and see if
> it works at all.  I really hope they take this issue seriously and fix
> it soon, otherwise a lot of people are going to go running back to
> Windows or whatever OS they came from.  I'm sure the people writing
> GNOME have tons of old libs and crap on their computers from constantly
> upgrading... it would be nice if they would figure out just which ones
> are still needed in order to make 1.0 work with a fresh install!
> 
> Enough ranting... and good luck to you!
> 
> -Bill

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