From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.knology.net ([24.214.63.101]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DHnnm-0001ef-00 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:56:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 21600 invoked by uid 0); 2 Apr 2005 18:56:58 -0000 Received: from user-24-236-69-150.knology.net (HELO localhost) (24.236.69.150) by smtp8.knology.net with SMTP; 2 Apr 2005 18:56:58 -0000 Received: from kenny by localhost with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DHnp4-0005RX-7k for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:58:18 -0600 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:58:17 -0600 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050402185817.GA19992@blackbox> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20050402131516.GA9263@blackbox> <20050402142405.GA11245@blackbox> <20050402181444.GA19100@blackbox> <20050402183900.GA1622@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050402183900.GA1622@romuald.net.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i From: Kenny Hitt Subject: Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:56:59 -0000 Hi. I agree with you. My Gnome is mostly Debian packages. Unfortunately, I have some problems that are probably Debian specific. Because I didn't build from "official CVS sources", I'm on my on to figure them out and fix them. My biggest example is the help system crashing. When it crashes, I am forced to either ssh into the box from another system and start killing processes or hard boot the box with the crashed Gnome. If the problem was general, Debian would fix it. But it only happens with Gnopernicus and accessibility. My sighted girl friend keeps the same version of Gnome open for months at a time without the crash. I suspect it is caused by a Debian patch to a lib, but I don't know for sure. It isn't easy to start replacing library packages in Debian because of how Debian packages them. Also, I don't get any useful error messages so I don't know for sure what lib to replace. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:39:00PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > What about if someone doesn't feel like fetching everything from cvs, > and building the whole thing from source, but would prefer a > package. Just because the developers say that building from cvs is the > best way to go, doesn't mean that everyone would like to do so. > > Greg > >