I tried to update my wife's powerbook running Debian unstable to gnome2 today, but it did not work at all. I installed everything with "apt-get -t experimental install gnome2". When I start gnome, there are many problems:
1) gnome-settings-daemon is not installed. This was provided by gnome-control-center2, but is not in gnome-control-center>=2. This file is required. 2) gnome vfs was lacking some modules. I noticed vfolder was missing, but there may be others. It appears that the gnome-vfs build/libtool problems are not yet fixed. 3) There was nothing in the GNOME menu. Probably due to above? 4) There was nothing on the desktop. See above. 5) The default screen font appears to be Courier. That's a terrible default, and of course I couldn't change it because I had no control panels. 6) I had the annoying 30-second delay when starting the WM, which I don't have, but have had, with gnome 1.4. I reverted her desktop to gnome 1.4. It was certainly instructive to try installing it from scratch. On my other machines that have been using gnome2 since they debuted in experimental, i have no problems, but installing from scratch is a different beast. -jwb
