On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try >>> gnome 3. Before I do, I wonder how others have fared. >>> >>> thanks, >>> allan >>> >>> PS my system is ~amd64. >> >> I actually like it a lot. However, a lot of things are not >> customizable, and several other things behave completely different >> from GNOME 2. I've been using it since the last month or so, and I >> think I'm already used to the new UI. I believe it's a little faster >> than GNOME 2, and it definitely get less in the way to actually do >> work. > > Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from > gnome2 is difficult. Did you > > 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1 > 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 > 3. Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 > 4. Do something else
All of the above? :D I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make =gnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup) ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine" GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had any problem since then. Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge --depclean. It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something like that). Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
