[64studio-devel] Backport of GNOME 2.18

[Lincoln Spiteri]

Can't say performance is blindingly faster, maybe the mouse pointer
get a bit sticky at times but that may be due to some heavier than
normal loads that I have been running on my machine. Will report back
on this.

Overall very stable, can't notice any new features really. They are
not out there in your face it seems.

Lincoln

On 07/08/07, Free Ekanayaka <free at 64studio.com> wrote:
> Hi Lincoln,
>
> |--==> Lincoln Spiteri writes:
>
>   LS> Hi Free,
>   LS> Yes seems to work fine here too. Been working all morning with gnome
>   LS> upgraded. Only issue is that I lost synaptic due to missing
>   LS> dependencies but I managed to re-install using apt-get.
>
> Thank you for having tested that. Do you experience any difference
> with respect the old GNOME 2.14? (better performance, more feature
> etc.)
>
> Ciao!
>
> Free
>
>   LS> On 04/08/07, Free Ekanayaka <free at 64studio.com> wrote:
>   >>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
>   >>
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