Re: ximian gnome2

[josh lucas <josh stonecottage com>]

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 20:40, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 17:03, josh lucas wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 14:57, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> > > i have a couple questions:
> > > 
> > > 1. anyone know when they plan to add gnome2 to their regular (stable)
> > > gnome channel? i think i remember a couple weeks ago hearing that gnome2
> > > is now official, and considered stable.
> > 
> > The general answer to this has been that Ximian will release it when it
> > is ready.  I believe someone at Ximian said that for each time this
> > question was asked, an additional week would be added..  :)
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2. About a week ago i used red-carpet to update my system, as i do
> > > daily. for some reason after that particular day's updates, my
> > > gnome-terminal and gnome menu were messed up. The gnome-terminal program
> > > wont let me change the font, and when i type things, the text looks a
> > > little wrong....and extreamly wrong when i use my up&down arrow keys to
> > > see previously typed commands... im not sure if my decsription is
> > > adaquit, so here are two screenshots:
> > > 
> > >    1-a typed in command, "gnomecc" in this case
> > > 
> > > http://mysite.iptic.com/upgrdman/temp/scr1.jpg
> > > 
> > >    2-command typed in, then used arrow key several times to view past
> > > commands
> > > 
> > > http://mysite.iptic.com/upgrdman/temp/scr2.jpg
> > > 
> > > ^^^^^^ at the time i took the screenshot, the current command was
> > > gmplayer, the other characters are chunks of the older commands.
> > > 
> > > the text doesnt look bad in any of my other gnome apps...so im stumpped.
> > > and as for my gnome menu, after i ran red-carpet that day, it removed
> > > all the the contents of my "desktop preferences" menu, removed all but
> > > two apps from my "accessories" menu, and all the items in my "Others"
> > > menu. however the apps they linked to are still on my system. again, im
> > > stumpped.
> > > 
> > > hint: to make the text appear correctly, i have to drag the terminal
> > > below my task bar, or way to the left or right, and then bring it back
> > > into visable space to see correctly rendered text. maybe it's a bug with
> > > the gnome2 font renderer? i'd check bugzilla for bugreports on it, but i
> > > dont know what program to report it is... gnome2, g-term, xsft, ???
> > 
> > A quick glance at the gnome-2-snapshots mailing list archives would give
> > the answer...
> > 
> > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-2-snapshots/2002-July/000168.html
> 
> o, i wasn't aware of that list. but it mentions that it will most likely
> cause breakages...but wouldn't they be fixed by now? have they just not
> been fixed yet, or do i need to download an additional package....what?
> 

afaik, the issues haven't been fixed yet..

I think I saw a message in the archives which had a list of rpms you
could 'downgrade' to and go back to somewhat normal..


josh