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johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

Posts: 221

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Gnome 2.8

I just finished upgrading to Gnome 2.8 and I must say I'm quite impressed, it just works.  As a long time Slackware user, it's nice using a distro that's this up-to-date and works so well.  After Gnome upgraded it was a matter of installing dbus and hal and running them from /etc/rc.d.  Good job.

alexthelion

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2004-03-06

Posts: 117

Re: Gnome 2.8

Question: did you manage to get the automatic mounting of USB storage and the execution of a command upon connection of a digital camera to work? If so, how did you do it? The CD mounting thing works for me, but not the other ones.

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Gnome 2.8

the key to debuging gnome-volume-manager is running in a console.
it will spew errors it makes it's more easy to configure.

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LB06

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Re: Gnome 2.8

I experienced only a minor problem when upgrading to 2.8. Evolution crashed during migration to 2.x. So when I restarted the app there was a duplicate of every mail.

Also, why the hell does Evolution 1 and 2 different startup-bins? Nobody wants to run 1.4 anymore anyway . This caused some links to point to the wrong binary, for example the icon in my gnome starter applet. This is not Arch's fault, but it's still annoying.

MatrixP

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-09-22

Posts: 21

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Re: Gnome 2.8

when i upgrade from gnome 2.6, do i have to save any config files?

Thx.

MatrixP

edit: i just upgraded, with no Files saved before, but everything is still running fine

LB06

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Re: Gnome 2.8

WTF? It looks like my mime info is messed up or something. Everything's opened in a KDE program(music,pdf,etc)

longhornxtreme

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Registered: 2004-07-10

Posts: 131

Re: Gnome 2.8

when i upgrade from gnome 2.6, do i have to save any config files?

For some reason i had to delete all my .gnome* dir's in my home directory for my desktop to show up when upgrading to 2.8   granted i upgraded like the 2nd day it was in testing so maybe that's fixed by now... but I dunno....

Creepy

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-09-20

Posts: 48

Re: Gnome 2.8

I just upgraded to Gnome 2.8 last night. Things went smooth! Nice work Blaasvis.

The only thing I have to report is that my 2 gnome 2.6 problems are still present in gnome 2.8 (splashscreen not disappearing by itself after putting an ap in sessions ->startup and the yellow line on the right after launching an app from the panel).