Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Kent West wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Brian May
Edwin == Edwin Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Edwin Hi everyone, I am using the unstable debian release. Edwin Having read the news group for a while, I noticed that a Edwin lot of people like the Helix Gnome stuff. My question is Edwin if I upgrade to Helix Gnome now rather than

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread John Gould
Hi there, There certainly are debs on Helix's web site, works fine on potato, there supposedly for woody. You will get one unresolved dependancy, just sort this via 'apt-get install' from the woody archive. I believe it's guile6? And, yes I think it's worth the upgrade! I had one problem

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:11:56PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I am using the unstable debian release. Having read the news group for a while, I noticed that a lot of people like the Helix Gnome

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Darlock
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: Currently I use the potato with Helix GNOME and runs fine, I was installed the Debian Potato GNOME and the upgrade works perfectly. I have this line into sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

Default Color Depth in X (was Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?)

2000-07-05 Thread Dan Everton
this! Anyway I prefer to start X from a command prompt so's I can specify the colour depth. Swerving completely off topic here, but I see a lot of people do this. But if you don't like the default color depth that X comes up in, did you know you can change the default? I have the following

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Kent West
Darlock wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: Currently I use the potato with Helix GNOME and runs fine, I was installed the Debian Potato GNOME and the upgrade works perfectly. I have this line into sources.list: deb

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going fine, until I got a dependency error that

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Kent West
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going fine, until

Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-04 Thread Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am using the unstable debian release. Having read the news group for a while, I noticed that a lot of people like the Helix Gnome stuff. My question is if I upgrade to Helix Gnome now rather than to wait for the new Debian Gnome to come out, would that introduce problems

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I am using the unstable debian release. Having read the news group for a while, I noticed that a lot of people like the Helix Gnome stuff. My question is if I upgrade to Helix Gnome now rather

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-04 Thread Corey Popelier
The one thing I can't figure out is will there be a Gnome 1.2 as well? Or is Helix Gnome 1.2 and Gnome will do something else? I know the libs and stuff are 1.2 but the panel/etc is all still 1.0.55 (or so, im going from memory). Will Gnome release a 1.2 with the same sort of Panel goodies that