Hi I recently did a distupgrade to GNOME:Stable:2.32 on a pretty fresh OpenSUSE 11.3 installation. Rather than moan on IRC where people might not see this, especially during conference, I thought I'd write it up properly. There were some problems. Not as bad as last time I tried this a while back, admittedly. I did the dup, didn't check every single package change, and restarted my session. First problem? No panel. Eep. In a terminal, gnome-panel told me that it was dying because the notification area applet was missing a symbol in GTK+. I'm afraid I can't remember that symbol's exact name. It didn't take much sniffing to discover that GTK+ 2.22 had not been installed during the upgrade. That was a surprise. I told zypper to install it manually, it said there was an update available with vendor change, so I forced it to do that and the reason was revealed - some kind of dependency/provides argument with gtk2-branding-opensuse and gtk2-engines or maybe gtk2-branding-upstream. Unfortunately it's a bit too early in the morning to remember the details. In any case, installing that sorted out notification-area. Cracking. The problem I remain immediately aware of is what looks like a rendering bug in certain conditions. I'm using compiz on an nvidia card, and before the upgrade everything looked fine. Now, when I pull up GNOME Do, the window's shadow (which I believe is rendered by Do and not by compiz) has no gradient - it's just a nasty chunk of translucent grey. This lack of gradient is also visible in certain states of certain GTK widgets, like the internal shadow on a progress bar, and a depressed button (using the Clearlooks engine for this). I did wonder if maybe cairo had escaped updating too, but that's at the latest available version according to zypper (package libcairo2). So that one's got me stumped, and it's kind of ugly too. Seems to affect all apps, from GDM to Firefox and beyond. There's a load of stuff I haven't tested yet as well, but I'll worry about that if it becomes worrisome. I know I could've just stuck with 2.30, but I knew there were probably still problems from my adventures before, and how can problems be fixed if people don't know about them? Thanks Matthew mathw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org