[NBLUG/talk] dselect strangeness

troy fryman at sonic.net
Thu Jun 26 01:22:01 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:29:15PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> 
> I'm not too crazy about being a Gnome2 Guinea pig, so I think I'll put
> a hold on my Gnome 1.4 related packages and wait. Besides, I saw some
> people on debian-user complaining about reduced functionality and
> configurability in Gnome2.

I like gnome2, and it's solid as can be on Sid.  There *are* fewer
options and some missing applets, but overall it's much faster and nicer
on the eyes than 1.4.  Though, IMHO, junk metacity and grab sawfish.
Also many of the "missing" settings are just lacking a GUI config editor.
gconf-editor allows you to change these items directly (think: windows
registry) but in many cases you'll need to get clued in on what can be
changed by a buddy, or mailing list, etc.

If you have any specific questions as to which gnome 1.4 features may or
may not be missing feel free to ask me on or off list.

It's certainly a good idea to let things settle out in testing.  i.e.
wait for all the packages to drift in and let the other suckers test
them.  Unless of course you want to file some bug reports...

> On the plus side, as I dug around (you can easily spend hours in those
> archives, learning from others' problems), I found out why I've been
> having that perlmagick dependency problem ever since I moved to
> Testing (perl 5.8 is in Testing, but perlmagick is still at 5.6).

Yeah, when I stuck Debian on my desktop, I subscribed to debian-user.
Disgusting amount of traffic, but high s/n and I learned a ton about The
Debian Way.

Tip:
For people that abhor web-based mailing archives, point your newsreader
to news.gmane.org which is a news group front end to mailing list
archives.  Very nice if you're going to be browsing threads as opposed
to searching for a specific answer.

Tip #2:
"aptitude" is another dpkg front end.  Command-line interface is very
similar to apt-get, while the gui is dselect-like but, uhhm, better I
think.  see <http://tinyurl.com/fb34> for the thread that convinced me.

-troy




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