RE: First impressions of new GNOME user, and a few problems

["Jeremy Malcolm" <Jeremy Malcolm wattle id au>]

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> Because E does not require Gnome, it only adds itself to your 
> startup.  If
> there is a problem with the way it adds itself, you should 
> probably send
> a bug report to the maintainer of E, but E should not be 
> expected to add
> the startup commands for Gnome to your .xinitrc

Point taken, but then there should be a Gnome setup script that does
it (or rpm, dpkg as applicable for the distributions should do it), to
make it easier for the kind of new users who are supposed to be
attracted by Gnome.  To tell them "add this line to your .xinitrc" is
not enough, because depending on how they are starting X, .xinitrc may
not be the correct file.  I am using xdm under Red Hat 5.2, so *all*
of the files that E modified (~/.xinitrc, ~/.xclients, ~/.Xsession)
were the wrong choice!

Also, the Enlightenment package that comes with the Gnome rpm
distribution doesn't have load any tools or applets because it relies
on Gnome to provide these.  If E modifies your startup script to load
Enlightenment but not gnome-session, then you are left with a blank
screen that you can do absolutely nothing with (unless your previous
window manager still loads)!  This would freak a new user out totally.

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