hast the problem with gnome2.4 and evolution been fixed, James? Many thank for your great work!! Cheers Christoph On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 10:22, James Ogley wrote:
SuSE Gnome 2.4 looked fine and worked very well, but I still wanted something more - I've seen Blue Curve in Red Hat... 8, I think it was, and some screen shots from a Gnome DE for Slackware, and I had a feeling that you could do so much more, and better looking, with Gnome and SuSE.
I suspect the Wonderland theme from www.usr-local-bin.org will work fine (that's the other name for Bluecurve), as will the other themes there.
ULB Gnome When upgrading the system by apt, following the apt guide at usr-local-bin (www.usr-local-bin.org/apt.php), a lot of packages were kept back for reasons I don't know, but I simply deinstalled them
They will probably have been held back because they removed other packages (eg, the updated gimp2 obsoletes the previously separate gimp2-svg since it's now been merged into the main gimp2 source).
were held back (sane, libgsf and gstreamer-plugins). Then I installed
here's a case in point, SuSE divide the gstreamer-plugins package into a whole bunch of different ones, but given that their names are not exactly descriptive (default, excess, extra...) so most people would just install them all anyway, to be sure not to miss ones they might want, I consolidated them into a single package that obsoletes and removes the other ones.
ULB Gnome, and after that I used 'apt-get install' to get all the packages I deinstalled earlier.
Superb
and 2.4. Some menu entries disappeared (mysqlcc, Maelstrom, audacity, xsane, opera - see attached file for almost a full list :-) but not at
This is because they were only there in the first place because of the way SuSE had mucked about with GnomeVFS (see list archives for more details) :)
And the winner is... ULB Gnome, on the other hand, is also very good looking but faster and works very well and integrates better with SuSE - ULB Gnome really gives the impression of being an official part of SuSE, not just a DE that happens to work with SuSE as well as with some other distros. ULB Gnome is the DE I'm still using - it's stable, it's fast, it's very good looking and integrates very well with SuSE - thank you very much James!
You know, I really don't know what to say, I'm just blown away. This review is a great new year present. You've put a lot of work in there Lars, and I'm just overwhelmed that you came out in favour of ULB GNOME.
I'll take this opportunity to say that I hope to further improve ULB GNOME over 2004, I have some plans in mind, that I hope I have the time to make a reality.
James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org -- Christoph Lehmann