On 12 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: > > I've built some Gnome 0.99.4 packages from the stuff in potato.
Steve you're a legend! > > There a few minor problems with it - the gnome-terminal doesn't work > (it can't get a pty for some reason - this will also break gnome-apt) > and the "gnomecc" program dies whenever you exit from a capplet (but > the changes do take effect anyways). Yeah. The pty stuff will be glibc2.1 probs, I expect, since the pty handling changed. > > The version of balsa in slink is made for a different version of gtk, > so I left it out. (The MDI stuff and a few other things are > different.) > > Same story for the gnome-games (the ones in slink are ancient and > won't compile against the new libgtk). Yup. These are all out-of-date, and will no longer compile. > > The panel and gnumeric seem to work well, as does the "thin-ice" theme > (try it out, gnumeric looks really nice with the thin-ice theme). The marble3d theme is even better - I'll post an intent-to-package shortly. Anyone who doesn't mind an unsigned deb with no description in its control file can get it from www.debian.org/~jules (its arch: all). Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/

