On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell <sruss...@prodigeinfo.qc.ca> wrote: > John Marino a écrit : >> >> On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: >>> >>> Wojciech Puchar a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as >>>>> I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is not working. >>>> >>>> >>>> just use windows manager like cwm or fvwm2+your own configuration. >>>> I for example use my 9 year old .fvwm2rc which results in cwm-alike >>>> environment. >>>> >>>> it's really easier to just run program you need (like openoffice >>>> writer, mail client, gimp etc.) instead of running bells and whistles >>>> like Gnome. >>>> >>>> I assume you need workstation (==computer to do actual work). Gnome >>>> nor XFCE nor KDE doesn't help in doing actual work. >>>> >>> I always try to use Gnome whenever possible, and fall back to XFCE when >>> it's not. >> >> >> It might be time to rethink that approach. The gnome library version >> numbers are all mismatched. Some are 2.24, others 2.26, others 2.32. >> Effectively they can't all be brought to the current level of glib2 due to >> the increasing amount of linux-only functionality there. The days of Gnome >> on non-Linux might be numbered, at least modern Gnome... >> >> On the flipside, KDE has been compiling completely and all the modules >> have matching versions numbers. Currently KDE 3.5 just lost regressed a >> module or two, but before that we had fully building KDE 3.5 and 4.8.x. >> >> XFCE has been building as well, but it's still on 4.6 >> >> John > > I think your right about this. Even the Illumos community complains about > this.
Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches (if you have the skills) would possibly be a better choice, wouldn't it?
