Hello list,
I am closely following the factory tree with my installation (Dell Latitude C640).

With the latest update from Aug 26th I hoped,  some of the issues I had are solved and finally I can use firefox again which was one of the main issues.

But a few other things I am struggling with:
a) With rug I get dependendy problems updating cpp41, gcc41, gcc41-c++, gcc41-fortran, gcc41-info,gcc41-objc,libstdc++-41-devel

The following things I see since updating to 10.2 alpha versions:
b) metacity is not usable as window manager for gnome (I currently switched to icewm), starting it at the command line I get the following:

sandmann:/ # metacity --replace
Window manager warning: Bad key or directory name: "ENABLE_WINDOWS_KEYS": Must begin with a slash (/)
Segmentation fault

I was not able to find anything about the mentioned key/directory name and also google wasn't helping. Where can I start looking

c) At startup I get a message "Gnome Settings Deamon" couldn't be started. After trying all solutions which I found, I completely reinstalled openSUSE (from the factory tree again), created a new user, but unfortunately the problem remained.

A process is running:
sandmann:/ # ps -ef | grep gnome-settings-daemon
mbrasse   4322     1  0 11:54 ?        00:00:02 /opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=29

When I kill that process and restart the same command from the console I get:
mbrasse@sandmann:/> /opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=29
[1156675807,000,xklavier.c:XklStartListen/]     The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the applicationIOR: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

(gnome-screensaver:5155): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session

d) All yast menu entries (gnome main menu and also in the control center) don't force to run yast2 as root. The only way to use yast fully is from the command prompt.

e) The gnome keyboard properties applet crashing when I try to start it.
I still need to install bug-buddy before I can give more hints. If I start it from the console it hints again, that the gnome-settings-daemon is not running before crashing.

f) NetworkManager doesn't recognize my network devices any more and says "no network devices found" so I had to change to the "traditional method using ifup" which works fine.

I have a Dell True Mobile WLAN and a integrated fast Ethernet controller in my laptop.

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Are any of these points visible for other people as well? Are any workarounds or solutions known? Shall I report the things as bugs?

And beside from that I am struggling with videos (gstreamer doesn't want to play .wmv movies even after I played around a lot), opensync and evolution, ...
Thanks and regards
          Micha