Nice feature of Gnome 2.6 .....

stgreek · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:36 am Post subject: Nice feature of Gnome 2.6 .....

One very welcome addition to gnome 2.6 that I just noticed. When you emerge something, it INSTANTLY displays it in the menus, so you don't have to restart X to see your new icons anymore

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pioto · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:37 am Post subject:

umm... that worked in gnome-2.4 as well, i believe...

Satchmoz · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:17 am Post subject:

Odd Gnome 2.4 always waited untill I logged out and back in to update the menu. In fact so does Gnome 2.6 atm.. perhaps there is some setting im missing.

purplerhino · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:56 am Post subject: FAM

It does that in 2.4 if you have FAM running I believe is the trick.

stgreek · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:06 am Post subject:

I have famd starting on boot at 2.6 so that might be the trick then..
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ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

I always just killed the panel and then it would rebuild, saved logging out.
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Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

I had very limited succes with famd, it doesn't always update correctly and so on. I think we need a new implementation of dnotify to solve this, and since it's a kernel issue really, I think we have to wait for Robert M. Love's kernel messaging layer, which we "might" be able to use for it, and then tie into d-bus and have true push technology to inform gnome-vfs and gnome-panel of filesystem changes.
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pioto · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject: how to get gnome-2.6 NOW

umm... i think that the rc5 is really the "final" version... read this...

and, you don't have to work all that hard to un-mask it now...

/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

/etc/portage/package.unmask

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnome

package.unmask

>=media-plugins/gst-plugins-libpng-0.8

ok, and with that, you should be done!

whschwartz · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

I added the lines to my /etc/portage/package.unmask and tried a pretend run and I get 2 blocks. I'm not sure how to resolve these.

[blocks B ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-thinice (from pkg x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.6.0)
[blocks B ] gnome-extra/acme (from pkg gnome-base/control-center-2.6.0.3)

Could someone point me in the right direction?

thanks
Bill

whschwartz · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

I found the information I was after at this thread.