Heya, Thanks for the build notes - I'm not sure I can help you on quite a few of them, although for some of them we do seem to have the same patches in the JDS sources.
> I see now that I have about a dozen more comments to type up so I'll > write up those notes in another message. Besides the mozilla save > file bug, the one serious problem I have with the new GNOME 2.10 > desktop is that my Applications menu is empty except for "Run > Application..."! I've tried deleting my ~/.gnome*, ~/.gconf*, and > ~/.nautilus directories, but I don't know enough about how the gnome > panel works to understand where it's supposed to get its Applications > menu items from. Since everything is installed into /opt/gnome2, it > shouldn't be conflicting with anything from JDS. So the menu entries are stored in $(sysconfdir)/xdg/menus, as .xml files. Then the stuff that fills them is in $(datadir)/applications, as .desktop files. Sounds like you probably need to be setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environmental variable to point to your stuff in /opt/gnome2, although I'm not sure why it didn't pick up the JDS stuff. Let me know if that helps. Glynn
