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> I spent many hours on this problem myself during the testing of 7.1. If
> you kill your ~/.gnome directory you get those bland, unchangeable icons
> the next time you start gmc. But simply deleting the ~/.gnome/metadata.db
> fixes it. Why the regenerated metadata.db is different from the one
> generated when the .gnome directory is created is beyond me
It's not particulary that default config, but I will comment on a few things.
But first stability with compatibility : )
gnome icons on the desktop get chunked
The reason for this is the gnome icons from helix aren't included(or is this
the reason ?) so all the icons on the desktop get flipped to
gnome-application-x-gnome-app-info.png
So I go to change them............ And they won't change : (
there was an error about placement.
So there seems to be a bug in one of two things.
Your mc/gmc or there's just a compatibility problem between the helix-gnome
config files in ~/ and your helix-gnome packages.
This needs to be looked into futher though : )
Ok now on to the minute problems of the default config a.k.a. pretty
graphics. This is IMHO, I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but
well for one thing the icons that come with helix aren't included, which are
quite nice IMHO.
2). I understand trying to promote mdk, but those mdk folders in the gnome
menu and the logo in the helix-gnome splash screen are just tacky IMHO.
Also might want to consider going with the new default helix theme, the theme
name is 5 over here, or at least that's how it shows up in gnomecc and
/usr/share/themes.
Keep the helix icons for the gnome menu, they're completely destroyed and
makes the menu look funky.
My 4 last statements we're just rants, but the first one is a problem.
You need to look at this from an end-users point of view.
Rather, a user that has installed helix from helixcode and not mdk and is
switching to mdk's packages. From my experience, people are gonna be highly
pissed when a lot of they're pretty graphics(icon settings) are broke, as
well desktop icons that don't seem to work at all.
Give it some thought : )
Bryan Paxton
> I spent many hours on this problem myself during the testing of 7.1. If
> you kill your ~/.gnome directory you get those bland, unchangeable icons
> the next time you start gmc. But simply deleting the ~/.gnome/metadata.db
> fixes it. Why the regenerated metadata.db is different from the one
> generated when the .gnome directory is created is beyond me
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