Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Andy Eager">
>
>> Has anyone downloaded the new version of Gnome 1.4 (the new 1.4 not the
>> old 1.4 released a while back).
>
>
> Heh, there's (so far) only one GNOME 1.4, but Ximian did upgrade their
> packages recently...
Yeh, I know and thats the problem. They upgrade their packages (quite
considerably ) and still called it 1.4. I know that's like having
RedHat 6.2 with a 2.2.19 kernel, but at least in RedHat's case, the
distro release does give some indication of backward compatability - Not
the case here I can assure you.
>
>> I got the latest release from the ximian site last night, and loaded it up.
>> Now Mozilla mail (the funky new bluey / grey look) crashes when you try
>> to compose an outgoing email (or forward an existing message).
>>
>> Also Abiword seems to be even less stable and they have removed the
>> 'classic' gnome look as an option on startup.
>
>
> I only use Ximian GNOME at work, and at the moment we're stuck with a
> dial-up connection so haven't upgraded yet. If no one else has tried, we can
> always find out from the Ximian monkeys (try their MonkeyTalk app, or #gnome
> on irc.au.gnome.org).
If you keep a copy of the redcarpet package directory
(/var/cache/redcarpet) somewhere on your network and then copy it back
to /var/cache/redcarpet when you do your upgrade, it only takes an hour
or two (closer to two but not 7 - 8 hours as the full 115 M from scratch
would take).
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