[64studio-devel] Backport of GNOME 2.18

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi all,

I've almost completed the backport of GNOME 2.18 for etch. It seems to
work fine on this 64 Studio 2.0 box, but before including it in the
testing repository I would like to have some more feedback.

To install it from a plain 2.0 (or from bleeding-edge 64studio/testing)
just add this repo to your sources:

deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports etch main contrib non-free

and run:

apt-get dist-upgrade

Make also sure that you don't have repos other than 64studio (either
stable or testing) and etch. Note that apt will probably want to
remove the update-manager package, that's fine (I didn't backport it
yet). If you get questions about configuration files just answer "yes"
(that means "install the new maintainer version") and after the
process run:

update-dspyco-skel
/var/lib/dpkg/info/64studio-themes.postinst configure

if you want to restore the 64studio customisations.

I would like to know your impressions about this new 2.18 version, in
particular if it makes a real difference wrt 2.14 and if it is worth
to include it in the forthcoming 3.0, which will most probably based
again on Etch (lenny is still far away) and so would otherwise sport
GNOME 2.14 again.

Personally, even if I would find it a pity to release 64 Studio with
GNOME 2.14, now that we are approaching GNOME 2.20, I would
nevertheless stick to GNOME 2.14, because the port of 2.18 involve
more than one hundred packages and the divergence to etch would be
significant. On the other hand some people could possibly find it odd,
that 64 Studio runs such an old GNOME and choose more up to date
alternatives.

Ciao,

Free