Galeon/gconf issue

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:33, Vladimir Belyashki wrote:
> Hello,
> I have recently upgraded from Gnome 2.2 to 2.4. The process was a pain
> since some packages were deprecated in 2.4 and I had some components
> failing to build with strange error messages. I resolved it by removing
> all Gnome packages (including gtk) and rebuilding the new version from
> scratch. Everything was done through the ports tree, no standalone
> compilation. The real problem is when I try to use Galeon. The build
> and install processes finish normally but when I try to run the browser
> I get an error message about gconf not being able to find a schema for
> Galeon preferences. I checked the on-line Galeon documentation and found
> it to be a FAQ, but the solution suggested there did not solve the
> problem. Galeon2 (the devel version), however, works fine. I also
> checked the gconf schemes for Galeon and there appear to be some prefs
> schemes that obviously don't work with me. I'm puzzled if gconf is not
> able to read the schemes mentioned or the schemes themselves are not
> compatible. I'm also not sure whether it's gconf or Galeon issue but
> since the ports tree states you maintain both I direct this mail to you.
> I suppose Galeon (not Galeon2) was not deprecated since it's not marked
> broken. Have you experienced anything like this and if yes what is the
> solution? Here is what I have installed on my FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE
> system:
> 
> gconf-1.0.9_5
> gconf2-2.4.0.1
> galeon-1.2.12
> 
> I may also provide additional debugging messages if you have the time to
> look over this.

This issue was recently discussed on this list.  Galeon is broken with
gconf2.  You can workaround this by starting gconfd-1 by hand, but that
will break other things.  Your best getting to like galeon2.

Joe

> Thank you.
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