On Thursday 06 February 2003 2:19 pm, James Ogley wrote:
Well, I ain't doing them! ;)
Nah, seriously, the thing is that GNOME 2.2 depends on GTK+ 2.2, and all it's dependencies.
The big key dependency here is fontconfig/Xft2, while not difficult to build, it affects quite a fundamental part of the GUI, so I'd rather not produce packages of that, but wait till it's actually included in the distro (ie 8.2).
Now, I know that fc/Xft2 will be in 8.2, but if GNOME 2.2 doesn't make it in (should get a nod or a headshake soon on that) then when 8.2 comes out, I'll look into putting together RPMs for the GNOME 2.2 desktop. No promises of course, I have a disk quote to fit inside, and a full-time job, and all that, but I'll do my best.
I would like to try the new Gnome2.2, but are there RPMs available for it? Having searched, I can only find the source files on the Gnome site and mirrors. There's nothing on the APT repositories, either. I have enough problems installing just one .tar.bz file, let alone all the new Gnome ones! It's RPMs, or forget it!
Thanks for the information and clarification, James. I thought that with you and Anders apparently running it, Gnome 2.2 was "readily available" as the saying is. I'll wait for SuSE8.2. -- Cheers Keith