On 2018-07-24 19:48:14 +0200 Yavor Doganov <[email protected]> wrote: > В Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:43:24 +0200, Patrick CARDONA написа: > >> I started from a clean GNUstep folder, and things went better, as >> expected : >> - Alt/Meta Keys work again. > > So it was due to some default that you have set in your Ubuntu > environment. > >> As You told me about I could meet some downgrade behaviour due to older >> versions, do You think I should add Backports repositories in my >> /etc/apt/sources.list ? > > No; there are no backports of GNUstep packages. We never had requests > from users for backports and they wouldn't be possible in many cases > due to new versions of the libraries that are not available in stable. > That's certainly true for GNUMail's newest release which requires > Pantomime 1.3.0 and that's not available even in unstable (it's been > in the NEW queue[0] for a month, waiting for ftpmasters' approval). > > [0] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > >> Do You thing also Testing is stable enought with GNUstep software ? > > Well, it depends on your usage pattern and priorities. Using testing > is perfectly fine in many scenarios. Should you decide to switch to > testing, please note that upgrading is not guaranteed to work, it's > safer to use the weekly images [1]. > > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/ > >> I thought - and obviously I was wrong - that Debian was more up to >> date than Ubuntu. > > Debian is more up to date than Ubuntu, that's right (with some > exceptions when Ubuntu do some library transitions in advance). But > you switched from Ubuntu's last stable release to Debian's last stable > release and they are never in sync. Stretch was released more than a > year ago so it's natural that the software is older. > >> Also, I would like to deal with a lighter install process : no Gnome >> desktop (no Desktop tasksel), just the basic X server, wmaker and >> GNUstep apps with a few other (firefox, and so on...) which I did >> wrappers. > > This should be easily doable if you select Expert mode in the Debian > Installer. > >> Maybe I should not backup the GNUstep directory ? Maybe, if I install on >> Debian again, it is not a matter... > > If you install Debian testing, there shouldn't be discrepancies > because the package versions are (almost) the same in Bionic. So it's > likely to work. > >> But I need first to understand how the things could work this way. For >> example, when I use the dockapp wmudmount to mount my USB external >> drive, the disk icon do not show up on the desktop. > > There is no such package, perhaps it was a typo? > >> I need to refresh ("Tools/Hide desktop" then "Tools/Show desktop") >> to see this icon on the desktop of the workspace. > > This is probably a GWorkspace bug, could be fixed. >
Hi Yavor, Thanks for Your aknowledgement. Well, I got wmudmount.app [1] from a rpm and converted this app with Alien. [1] https://www.dockapps.net/wmudmount It is true that it does not come from Debian repository. But I did not found a simple way to manage usb disks in the user space. Maybe I do not the things the right way within GWorkspace. But I did not find a tuto about this. Is GWorkspace using DBUS messaging between apps and udisks2 ? About GNUstep user directory, I was speaking about the new one which is cleaner than the older from Ubuntu. I dropped the Ubuntu one, so my question was about migrating from Debian to Debian (maybe stable to testing) So what happens when a user want to upgrade : are some sub-directories to conserve, like $HOME/GNUstep/Library and $HOME/GNUstep/Applications and others to be dropped ? Bye! Patrick _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
