New install of gnome on 5.3

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:04 -0400, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> I just installed 5.3 (binary, clean install), and made gnome2 from
> ports. It looks very good, thanks for all the hard work.
> 
> The only problems I have observed is that gnome wouldn't start because
> the /tmp/.ICE-unix didn't exist and I had to create it manually.

Known issue.  I believe this is covered in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

> 
> The help pages are incomplete. Is this because they aren't finished, or
> because they are missing?

They have not been updated for GNOME 2.10.  I think Sun usually does the
docs, not sure what's keeping the,.

> 
> I'm also wondering if it is possible to run evolution 1.4 with gnome2.
> Evolution 2.2.1.1 seems to have taken several steps backward, which is
> disappointing. 

Maybe, but I've never tried it.  The API and ABI are backwards
compatible, so it should work.  However, you may not be able to use all
of the MIME features.

Joe

> 
> Thanks again,
> Scott
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