I've just tried the latest Vermilion build. (39.) This is on a Sparc SunBlade 2000 running snv_36.
Generally, my feelings are pretty negative. As it stands, I couldn't use this. Primarily because gnome-terminal has regressed so badly, and that's what I use all day. Notes follow: Oh my, how gnome-terminal is broken. This is a real biggie for me - it's so bad it's effectively unuseable. pg-up and pg-down (and home, end) have stopped working again. I don't know what font it's now got but it's horrible and unpleasantly unreadable. Why is Dasher under Accessibility and Accessories? New Login in a nested window fails. It cores: core 'core' of 2054: gdmflexiserver --xnest fee480f8 gtk_message_dialog_new (0, 0, 1, 1, 34488, 2) + 104 0001c684 ve_hig_dialog_new (0, 1dc00, 1, 1, 1d0c8, 1d0f8) + 28 00017750 gdmcomm_check (0, 0, 1d000, 1d000, ff265bb8, 1d0c8) + 21c 000161ec main (0, ffbff234, 1c800, 1c800, 1c800, 1c800) + ec 00014a48 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108 Generally feels quite a bit slower. Firefox didn't work. It's looking for it in /usr/sfw/bin/ but it's installed in /usr/bin What the heck is Bon Echo? Firefox starts out tall and narrow - the default geometry isn't suitable for any site, really. The calculator is broken. Type in 121, then hit sqrt - it should pop up 11. Dictionary comes back with unable to find dictionary source, and then I got the ended unexpectedly dialog. core 'core' of 2444: /usr/bin/gnome-dictionary ff2b0630 strlen (1c871, ffbff4cc, ff369cf1, 0, ff36cd30, 73) + 50 ff2f4da0 vsnprintf (ffbff357, 1, 1c870, ffbff4c8, 7ffffc00, 0) + 64 ff13a9c0 g_printf_string_upper_bound (1c870, ffbff4c8, 0, ff36d644, 0, 0) + 10 ff16129c g_vasprintf (ffbff41c, 1c870, ffbff4c8, ff36a904, ff3a2000, 1000) + 68 ff14be70 g_strdup_vprintf (1c870, ffbff4c8, ff36a8c0, f, 5, ff3a2000) + 10 ff14bea0 g_strdup_printf (1c870, 0, 7b7d8, ff1a6238, 6e31c, 1c870) + 1c 00019010 gdict_window_set_word (4d1e8, 0, ffbff598, 5b700, ff236f50, 1c800) + 40 ff22ee38 g_object_constructor (191f4, 5b700, b2ca8, 4d1e8, b4270, 5) + 254 0001a52c gdict_window_constructor (ace40, 6, b2c78, 1cc00, ff22ebe4, 2e000) + 2c ff22e040 g_object_newv (b5cf8, b55e0, 1a500, ff26b534, b2c78, ff26c25c) + 3a8 ff22eb80 g_object_new_valist (0, 0, ffbff8ec, 31c18, b5b18, 1) + 35c ff22db3c g_object_new (ace40, 1cfd8, 39c60, 3da6c, ff26b534, 14800) + 84 0001af24 gdict_window_new (39c60, 0, 0, 1d000, 1cc00, 6) + 6c 00015528 gdict_create_window (34c10, 15400, 15000, 1b800, 1b800, 1000) + 40 00015f44 gdict_main (2e000, 1b800, 31f68, 1b800, 1bc00, 0) + 3c 0001afe8 main (1d000, ffbffa74, 1d000, 1d000, 1d000, 1d000) + 4c 00014bf0 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108 What's the Document Viewer? The tooltip - handles multipage documents - doesn't help much. Couldn't open many of my documents - it wouldn't even show them in the file list. (Yes, I know it's evince, but the use of the word document implies that it can open generic documents, which simply isn't true. The menu item should reflect exactly what it's capable of.) Sound and Video is just confusing. Why do I need 2 controls and 2 monitors? One tool to do all 4 should be enough. Why is the file browser a system tool? I expect this under Accessories. Why do I need an Image Organizer and an Image Viewer? Especially when ImageMagick is a better viewer and manipulator, and I for one find the way that Windows XP works as a file browser for images is much better anyway. In Preferences (which looks oddly placed under Desktop - that doesn't work for me) why are there 2 printer entries and 2 keyboard entries? The preferences menu is just too long. If I go to Places, Network Servers, and double click on Windows Servers, it unexpectedly quits on me. If I go to Places, Connect to server, and select ssh and fill in the hostname, I expect it to open up a terminal window and connect to the server I just specified. Nope. It creates a desktop icon, which is pretty useless. Even worse, if I double-click on the desktop icon, nautilus exits unexpectedly. (And when it restarts opens my home directory twice, which isn't what I want either.) Then when I try to delete the desktop icon I just got it tells me that I can't move it to the trash but that I must unmount the volume. Heck, I wanted a terminal window, what's this volume nonsense? -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
