I recently managed to get GNOME from potato installed onto my hybrid slink/potato system (despite the dire warnings I've heard, I have had no problems from the conflicting glibc versions - apt seems to have dealt with it very well).
The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything core-dumped. I spotted this by doing apt-get -s dist-upgrade, and looking for anything relevant. Should I file a bug on this somewhere? if so, what package? Now for the current issue (it's a minor one, but infuriating). When I download a GTK theme from themes.org and try to install it from the GNOME control center, everything gives the appearance of working fine - but only a few of the settings from the new theme are applied. The ones that seem to be applied are basic coloring and font changes. Everything else (ie border styles, special images for buttons, pixmap backgrounds, gradients... basically all the cool bits) are ignored. A couple of other minor things: * My menus don't animate, despite the fact that I selected that they should in the control center. is this a bug? * Is there a way to get E to animate minimizing and unminimizing? It's the only window operation that I don't get animated feedback on, and it's a bit disconcerting. * Both E and GNOME want to control the background. I can disable setting it from GNOME, but I'd rather let GNOME do it and disable it in E. Is there a way to do that? Other than that, let me just say that Gnome *rocks*. Kudos to the GNOME team, and the Debian people that packaged it all up for us. You guys rock. I've used KDE for ages, and found it amazing to start with, but right from the start I had little annoyances, that grew into big annoyances over time. GNOME seems to avoid all of them... I haven't found any yet! Stuart.
