Gnome 2.22.0

tallica · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

Why don't add evolution/epiphany use flag to gnome metapackage? Or create another metapackage with more use flags? It's might be good idea

like:
gnome-light
gnome
gnome-fit (with multiple use flags)

EDIT:
ahh I've just read it:

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Fran · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

red-wolf76 · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

I agree - partly. It just wouldn't make sense to lobotomize the full gnome package unless the stuff coming from upstream will frak your box. Having a gnome-medium meta in between gnome-light and gnome could make sense, but who'd maintain it and decide what to include and what to leave out? In the end, one may be easier off just adding USE variables to -light instead, even though in some more heavily screwed-up configs that may beg the question of calling it -light...

On another note. With all those blockers about, what would be the most sensible upgrade path. I do get baselayout 2 in my update pile, currently, and would like to bork one thing at a time before going bananas on a new gnome. Best guess is to just unmerge and remerge the offending packages, right?
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Leio · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

Regarding possible ideas of how to handle the meta package, I encourage to create a separate topic for that, so we can keep it on-topic here regarding GNOME-2.22 and have a concrete place to discuss the meta related approaches. Please drop a note here with a link to the new topic so we can follow-up there. Some moderators at that point might move some posts about metas over there as well.
Thank you
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plastikman187 · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 233

I have installed Gnome 2.22.0 and I have just a couple of questions/issues.

It seems that my Numlock does not work any more (even when the light says it is on it is off)
Each time I log in I get the below two messages that i have to click "OK"on
"Welcome to `hostname` last log in `date` on tty0"
"Welcome to `hostname`"
The icon for my NFS mount nolonger shows up on my desktop and no longer shows up in the system > places.

Does any one else have these issues? I really only care about issue 1 and 2. and mostly 2 it is very annoying having to click "OK" 2x to log into my system.
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Leio · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

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red-wolf76 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject:

Actually, Gnome 2.20 displayed drives already mounted, which somehow felt counterintuitive. If it's mounted via fstab, I likely know where it is and don't need it on my desktop through automount. Just my 2¢.

I do have trouble with my keyboard though. I used to be able to access neat characters such as the side quotation marks by using CTRL and the < or > keys (I think), respectively. Unfortunately, this has now stopped working (in Gnome, at least), even though ALT Gr still works. Probably to do with shortcut handling...
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Fran · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Why does swfdec-mozilla force xulrunner-1.8*? While it was in the overlay the dependency was any version of xulrunner, and it worked ok with xulrunner-1.9. I've modified the ebuild to admit again any version of xulrunner and is working fine here with firefox-3.0_beta5 and xulrunner 1.9_beta5.
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Leio · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:45 am Post subject:

Leio · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:47 am Post subject:

GNOME 2.22 is now unmasked on x86 and amd64. The rest will follow after forgotten keyword lists are done and architecture teams take care of those.
Upgrade guide here
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ooops should read whole thread :oops:

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Leio · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

makism · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 85

hello and thanks for the great work as always

.
earlier this morning, i emerged 2.22 and everthing worked like a charm.

some minor stuff:
i had to emerge myself "epiphany-extensions-2.22.0", "mail-notification-5.2",
"nautilus-sendto-0.14.0" and "nautilus-open-terminal-0.9".

some weird stuff:
i had a weird problem with evolution, emerge returned an error related with
a file corruption, or the filesize is not the expected :S (this was repeated about 5 times

).
i changed mirrors a couple times, and finally did a `ebuild evolution-2.22.0.ebuild digest`
and worked...

some python-possibly-related-stuff:
for the time being, the only thing that fails to run, is `gnome-about` (using python 2.5.1-r5).

here is the traceback:

ikshaar · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject:

Not much problem installing here.

Volume manager and volume icons on desktop on the other hand are broken again. Nautilus keep mounting my /boot partition which have the noauto in the fstab, but none of my usb, firewire drives show up or get mounted despite having set so in the gnome-volume-properties.
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erick.red · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

hey guys:

i juts read this from Mart Raudsepp...

DarKRaveR · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

I tried to emerge gnome-2.22. Everything looks fine, things seem to work alright in general.

One problem I had, I had to force the Session explicitly to gnome, otherwise some window about widgets popped up - no big deal though.

But there is one thing I really miss and which kinda produces quite some problem:

Under Computer all Volumes (Partitions) are listed, they get automounted as always, but here's one drawback - there used to be a properties page to modify the mount options, which seems to be gone. Unfortunately the mount options are important (I don't want ntfs-3g's write support on ntfs and I want proper names on FAT32). Is there any way to get this back to work, because non English filenames produce encoding errors and I am having problems to access them with gnome apps.

rjrooke · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 17

I ran into the evdev/xorg/hal problem with USB mice last month (no horizontal axis) and worked around the issue by reverting to hal 0.5.9.1

It seems that some gnome 2.22 apps depend on the new hal release (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc)...

I was not able to log in all the way until I upgraded hal to 0.5.10. I had to use one of the other xorg mouse fixes to get my horizontal axis back - autoadddevices=false and change mouse driver to mouse (rather than evdev).

I think the mouse problem is known to the hal and xorg devs...