I just tried ULB Gnome again -- via apt -- and I had some observations / questions.
1) All of my icons within Nautilus are the generic "paper" icon. I tried switching icon themes to no avail. 1.5) The "Computer" icon on the Nautilus toolbar... isn't. Nothing appears in that space.
2) None of my OpenOffice icons seem to work any more, including the ones on the generic SuSE menu. I created a launcher on a toolbar that calls /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice, though, and this works fine. Double-clicking an OO.o file within Nautilus doesn't do anything either.
3) Evolution... a) Won't display the monospace font I like B&H Lucida Typewriter) in 9pt size. It only goes down to 10. Quibble, for most people, but I've ditched whole distro's because of font issues before. b) Gnome-pilot still seems broken. At least, it won't talk to my Tungsten C, which has no problems sync'ing with a GTK2-ized version of JPilot I compiled myself. Is this (still) a known problem, or should it be working? This alone might have been about 50% of the reason I wanted to try Evo 2.0.
Following an upgrade to the latest ulb-gnome packages (on 3 October) i have to say that it is generally running smoothly, with the only problem being the theme-manager which crashes each time I use it. Evolution pilot is syncing quite happily with my Palm 505, though perhaps one in ten times, it crashes for no apparent reason.I haven't tried to use B&H Lucida but otherwise no font issues. I'll have a look when I get home. "Computer" displays all my drives except the external usb, even if mounted. So, I wonder what the problem is?
P.S. I had to "GPG::Check false;" in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/gpg-checker.conf to get the install to proceed. Shouldn't this be stated somewhere? I would have gladly checked some keys into my ring, but I don't see James putting a key "out there" to grab. All but 1 package had no signature. I think it was Epiphany that was holding things up.
James' key is available via www.usr-local-bin.org/rpms David