Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:24 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 22:45 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > Out of curiosity, do you have similar problems with the various > > calendaring functions? > > Absolutely - Any attempt to go into the calendar functions locks up all > of Evolut

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-07 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 22:45 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > Out of curiosity, do you have similar problems with the various > calendaring functions? Absolutely - Any attempt to go into the calendar functions locks up all of Evolution, and I had to go to console and kill the process to regain control

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:02 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Now all the icons appear correctly, but yet again my contacts list is > gone! I cleaned out my test user's entire /home directory so there > would not be any previous config files in place, started up again so > Gnome could build whateve

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/6/06, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now all the icons appear correctly, but yet again my contacts list is gone! I cleaned out my test user's entire /home directory so there would not be any previous config files in place, started up again so Gnome could build whatever it want

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-06 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 22:27 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > I *have* had some issues with > Evolution and contacts, but thought that to be a bug in Evo, > particularly since it doesn't occur with 2.6 (i.e Gnome 2.14). Funny you should mention that. I stayed up way too late last night re-installing t

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:00 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > To make a long story short (too late!) what I finally realized after > blowing the weekend on this project was that for whatever reason, > Evolution (and possibly the Gnome panel) doesn't like having libexec > processes in the /bin folder

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 22:44 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > There was a discussion about it and the decision was to put libexec > files for PACKAGE in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2005-October/011808.html Domo arrigato! Glad to know I wasn't the only one trou

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/5/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Why did you (blfs authors) write the Gnome > section so as to put the libexec functions in a separate directory > (e.g., /usr/gnome/lib/gnome-applets, /usr/gnome/lib/bonobo, etc.) rather > than just one big /usr/gnome/l

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Peter B. Steiger wrote: Why did you (blfs authors) write the Gnome section so as to put the libexec functions in a separate directory (e.g., /usr/gnome/lib/gnome-applets, /usr/gnome/lib/bonobo, etc.) rather than just one big /usr/gnome/lib/libexec? There was a discussion about it and the decis

Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Peter B. Steiger
Finally the light dawned last night. I have tried to upgrade Gnome to 2.1x several times over the past six months and each time ran into missing icons or (the most frequent and annoying symptom) a broken address book that won't show my existing entries or allow me to add new ones. Somehow a coupl