On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> > Has anyone tried out the HelixCode GNOME? Wow! I was (and still
> > am) severely impressed.
>
> I tried it. At first I had problems but as soon as I deleted my
> old gnome and enlightenment dir's (and other related ones), it
> worked fine. I still get problems with it starting more than
> one panel. (BTW: I installed from rpm). Now that it mostly works I
> should say that it's a BIG step in the right direction. More of that
> and I might switch from KDE.
I installed it over-top of my existing GNOME (I use GNOME and Sawmill) and
it worked great. I used to have a problem with it attempting to start
more than one instance of the same panel but not anymore. I used the lynx
install script to get it going and it worked really well. Since I don't
use (or particularly like KDE), this really made my day. My wife uses KDE
and I'm betting she'll switch to GNOME now that it's a little more
intuitive.
> > What is going to happen with Mandrake making use of this? This should be
> > included in the base Mandrake distribution as a (IMHO) replacement for the
> > regular GNOME.
>
> I really hope that Mandrake includes these packages. Better if they make
> their own rpm's and put them on the update.
Yeah, or have a seperate directory and patch the Helix Installer to point
to their mirror's. Maybe I'll fiddle and convert a few Helix RPMs to
Mandrake RPMs (I'd like to see how they differ from the
"standard" anyways).
> > Anyways, I installed and have only one problem with it right now (the
> > desktop icons seem to be broken) but other than that it's
> > incredible! Really makes a difference!
>
> Yeah. I've got the same problem.
Yeah, that's kinda annoying, but I don't usually use the desktop icons
anyways. But it would be nice if they did actually work... =(
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