I installed Helix today, and it's brilliant. This may sway me away from KDE !
But that's not what you want to hear !
Having played with gnome for a couple of years I have been bitten by install
scripts before. I just downloaded everything and worked on the assumption that
RPM was correct for the 75%ish files it said were older than the mdk versions.
The only problem I had was running the gnome panel under Enlightenment, shame
'cos I like E ! but sawmill looks pretty smart too.
I also had the dependency problems, I guess Helix will post these as updates
sometime.
I think this is beta stuff, reading between the lines of publicity. It has a
few quirks, but all in all I think it makes major strides in usability. In
response to Ivan Kerekes, if the only good thing you found was the fact you got
sound working then you weren't looking very far !!!
I e-mailed Helix about my two favourite Linux bug bears. They confirmed that
they will look into non postscript printers and parallel port scanners - hooray !
Keep going, it's worth the effort.
Owen
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone had any luck with installing Helix-Code Gnome on Madrake 7.0? I
> gave it a try, downloading the packages and then installing, but had some
> problems. A couple dependency problems and that I couldn't correct,
> libguile.so.4 and libbfd-2.91.0.24.so. When I finished the install and
> tried Gnome I had a run of problems. Most noticibly that the icons on the
> desktop were all screwed up. I no longer had harddrive icons, just folder
> short cuts, as with all the Mandrake icons. Is there anyway to keep the
> icons? I figure that they're lost when upgrading Gnome, but is there anyway
> to prevent this? I'm hoping that if I go through and solve the dependencies
> I'll be all set. I also noticed that I couldn't add any clocks to the
> panel. If I did, the panel would lock up. Again I'm wondering if the
> dependencies are causing this. I found the files that I think I needed
> afterwards when I was reinstalling Gnome from the orginal Mandrake files. I
> was just curious if anyone else had given it a try. Thanks.
>
>
> ~Mike
