Gnome 2.2 Final Released

Lowspirit · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject: Gnome 2.2 Final Released

(the other Gnome 2.2 topic was about Gnome 2.2 RC2, so hope final release is worth wasting a new topic on to start from scratch 100% about 2.2 Final,if not, just dup it)

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Screenshots to drool over while waiting for ebuilds (fixed link)

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No wait, Grab it!

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Gnome 2.2 Start Page (especially read the "Known issues" part)

Who should we chant for? Spider or foser?

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dbasinge · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject:

Been looking forward to using Gnome 2.2, hope the ebuilds are ready soon.

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lotas · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject:

them screen shots look sweet! Cant wait to get my hands on it! And that nautlius cd burner addon should make burning CDs a lot quicker!

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Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

6 months planned schedule release pushed to 5 months - impressive. Man I really like Gnome. I just wish there was a nice GTK2 CDBurning program - i'm currently using gtoaster, and love it, but it seems there's not much development in this area.
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Twist · Guru Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 414 Location: San Diego

Of course we all realize "the ebuild" is in fact like 20 ebuilds, which are pretty much the same as 2.0.3 except for (hopefully elegantly) dealing with a new dependent tree...so probably going to require a little patience, this is going to take some time.

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

On the contrary, I think the 2.2 final ebuilds will be exactly like the 2.2rc2 ebuilds, with small modifications. Any ebuild maker can do this, so I'm sure many users are running 2.2 final at the moment. What we're waiting for is for Spider, or whoever handles the 'official' versions of the gnome ebuilds, to make it into portage. The only thing preventing that is the modification of the ebuilds and of coures testing it and making sure dependencies (now that it will be unmasked) will work fine, and things like upgrading from gnome 2.0.3

Since gnome takes forever to compile, I'm sure this will be awhile, but not too long (in terms of actually writing up the ebuilds). At least that's my take on it, correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: BTW Foser handles the official gnome ebuilds right?
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Scheich · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 40

Considering that there are already Gnome 2.2rc2 - ebuilds by both our heroes spider and foser, I'd say it shouldn't take too long.

The improvements are certainly cool, but it's somewhat strange that there still lack some core stable gtk2-apps like a web-browser (galeon and epiphany in development) or a cd-burner (coaster in planning, gtoaster, see above).
Oh well, who cares, we can live with cvs-versions, can't we?

Yoannez · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 10:35 pm Post subject:

Hi

I'm joining the wait for the official portage gnome-2.2 although I already have
gnome-2.2

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lotas · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

Yoannez, how do you have it already? i cant figure out how to unmask 2.2RC2. comes up with some mad dependancies thingy. Anyway, i think ill wait. its safter.
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Yoannez · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject:

I just changed the ebuild files

To unmask gnome RC2 just delete all those references to it in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask
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Yuber · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 139

I really hope the random theme-selector program breaking is fixed. Almost everyone in the Gnome2.2 thread had that problem. I didn't have it at first but it developed later for some reason.

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

My theme selector on 2.2rc2 worked, for once, and it worked great. If you had this problem and are running 2.2rc2, then I doubt it will be fixed, and may be something specific to yoru system. They didn't really change much from rc2 to final as far as I know.
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maba · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Sweden

Gnome 2.2 is already in portage.
Read the instructions at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~spider/

Athrawn17 · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Des Moines IA

Happy Day!

I now have a purpose to my evening!! :lol:

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[smeagol] · Apprentice Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 152

How's it look? as of 14:44 pst I still don't have it in portage

. is it only on a few portage servers or something?
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denic · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 168

Yeah,

i start emerging gnome 2.2 now.
hope i will be ready soon.

Lowspirit · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

Chaos · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:04 am Post subject:

I don't have the ebuils yet and I've rsynced for the past five minutes. Why is it in the portage for everone but me?!?!?!?!? This world can be so cruel sometimes

Rutger · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:05 am Post subject:

I have the same question as smeagol: I don't have it in portage either. Does Spider mean that if we emerge gnome-2.2_rc2, we actually get gnome-2.2? Or should I rsync once more... Do you guys really have an ebuild gnome-2.2.ebuild or like me still a gnome-2.2_rc2.ebuild?

Yuber · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 139

killed fam, works fine.

SmegTheLight · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:26 am Post subject:

I have a gnome-2.2_rc2-r99.ebuild in my rsync finally.
Not sure if this is it or not.

the changelog references a r98 version for today.. (typo perhaps..)

Yoannez · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:31 am Post subject:

Hi

People have patience those are outdated ebuilds for the RC2.

The maintainer for Gnome is Foser. I'm sure I'll include the 2.2 final ebuilds in portage as soon has possible.

By the way this is my Gnome-2.2 Shot

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/yoannez/linux/index.html
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Rutger · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:38 am Post subject:

But Naba said: "Gnome 2.2 is already in portage." And on the website of spiderhttp://cvs.gentoo.org/~spider/ it also looks like it already is. The people who are already emerging, what is the exact version of your gnome-ebuild?

FruitCake · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

The gnome ebuild is just a list saying install all these packages gnome-2.2_rc2-r99 is installing the same versions of packages that are listed on the gnome site as the 2.2 release. And if you read the change log it says, its an internal gentoo test release for people to test to make sure that gnome 2.2 emerges successfully

foser · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 154

r99 is gnome 2.2 only there are a few minor issues that need fixing before i want to put 2.2 in there for 'everybody' masked for testing. So if you compile this then in a few hours you probably have to update a few more libs and you should be fine.

The fam/gnome-theme-manager issue is a known problem, both to us and the gnome hackers. It seems to depend on the amount of themes you have around if you will see it. Stopping fam will make the gnome-theme-manager run, it is annoying but there's nothing much we can do about it right now besides waiting for it to get fixed (feel free to hack around, it is after all opensource

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