Last Thursday (December 5), I installed Gnome 2 on a basically woody system using the instructions at http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html. I ran into the following major installation problems.
1. The script /usr/share/gnome-session/debian/gnome-stuff-1-to-2, the here-doc ending at line 343 (EOF) is indented when it shouldn't be. This causes strange errors about reaching the end of file prematurely. By the way, the syntax highlighting in VIM pointed this out right away. 2. A couple of error messages arose because the web page either doesn't mention to install gnome-control-center, or it is not set up properly as a dependency for gnome. The two errors were 1) File not found /usr/share/pixmaps/control-center2.png, and 2) Error starting GNOME Settings Daemon. Overall, I am farily disappointed with GNOME 2. Many of the configuration options have been oversimplified, the removal of the favorites menu was a disappointment, and the Window List applet sometimes decides not to use two rows to display the running applications and doesn't appear to group like applications like it used to. Is there an easy way to go back to the Gnome that shipped with Woody now that I've upgraded? -- Chris Ingram
