In upgrading Gnome-1.4 to Gnome-2.2, what about already installed Gnome apps?

Stacey Roberts stacey at vickiandstacey.com
Wed Apr 23 14:36:04 PDT 2003


Hello Joe,

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 18:15, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:07, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> >      I've come to the end of my time with Gnome-1.4 on one of my boxes,
> > and its time to get this box onto Gnome-2.2. 
> > 
> > This box, however, has been my main workstation since FreeBSD 4.3-Rel,
> > and I've got Gnome applications that were installed since before Gnome-2
> > was released, and I'm not entirely certain whether or not I could simply
> > upgraded to Gnome-2.2 and not have to "do anything" for these already
> > installed Gnome-1 ports. Specifically, these are:
> > evolution-1.2.4
> > gaim-0.61
> > AbiWord-gnome-1.0.5
> > gnumeric-1.0.13
> > dia-0.91
> > guppi-0.40.3_2
> > 
> > 
<snipped>
> >      
> > After those packages are removed, you can build GNOME 2.2 per the
> > instructions listed above"?
> 
> Yep, it's more or less that simple.  You should also read the GNOME 2
> release notes for any other gotchas.

Okay, I've just upgraded to Gnome-2.2 on this machine.

One thing I've noticed is that the sound events ususally associated with
Evolution isn't there anymore. Specifically, when I have marked messages
as deleted, and have done:
Actions > Empty Trash

There is no sounds to be heard. Nothing major, but I'm wondering if this
is normal, or symptomatic of a problem here.

Regards,

Stacey

> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the time.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Stacey
-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com




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