On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:58:36 -0400 Paul Hoy <paul.hoy@mac.com> wrote:
Anyway, back to the point of this email. I obviously can customize my Gnome desktop, but before I continue to do so, I'd like to hear from other Suse Gnome users out there who can give me their impressions about working with Gnome in Suse? I'd be interested in hearing any perspectives about Gnome/Suse that you may have.
I have an emotional reaction to KDE - sounds like a "Kulture" that does not appeal to me - so put me in the Gnome camp. But I consider myself a newbie with regard to Linux - and my greatest concern is whether "Gnome in SuSE" is the same as "Gnome", or not. Just about all the documentation I find is about "Gnome", yet it seems to me that "Gnome in SuSE" puts stuff in directories different from "Gnome". Under SuSE 9.2 I used Gnome throughout. I somehow managed to lose access to the Gnome icons (i.e., images) on my desktop, but was able to continue to use the desktop items by clicking on the text in those entries. So put me down as a happy "Gnome in SuSE" user (though there were facilities in KDE that were missing in Gnome - for instance, graphic adjustment of the gamma value for my display). Under SuSE 9.3 I'm not happy. Where I did an "install from scratch" of 9.3, Gnome works (though sometimes it disappears from the login screen options). But on the Linux system I use the most, I had (deliberately) done an "upgrade" from SuSE 9.2 to Suse 9.3. On that system, Gnome complains "undefined symbol" and does not run. Being a newbie, I have not the slightest idea why. I've done a lot of searching, but have not found anything that would let me solve what is going wrong. [Initially, there was no specific apt 'Gnome component' depository supported by SuSE for 9.3 - only for earlier SuSE versions. I see that recently such a depository has been provided for 9.3 as well.] My opinion of Gnome for SuSE 9.3 - if you know enough to be able to overcome obstacles by yourself, then go for it. mikus