Re: [SLUG] Solved (but not elegant)- Suse 8.2 and Evolution 1.4

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 10:37:43 EDT


I would never install Ximian desktop. I did that over Redhat 7.1 when I
first got into linux. Man oh man did it frazz things...

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:59, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Thanks for sharing this, Eric ... BTW, SuSE was really designed with KDE in
> mind; Gnome seems more like it was put in as an afterthought since every
> other major distro does it. Only reason I have SuSE is because it's the only
> one that works on my HP Pavilion, otherwise I'd have stayed with Mandrake.
>
> I'll give this a shot on my install when I have a chance.
>
> I STRONGLY do not recommend that you try installing Ximian Desktop. It'll
> REALLY screw up Gnome.
>
> SWB
>
> --- Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> > With Suse 8.2, they've not done a lot to make the user experience
> > trouble-free. Anyway, if you have the evolution 1.4 RPM (from
> > http://www.usr-local-bin.org) because evolution 1.2 was butt-ugly, the
> > gtk2 font changes in gnome-control-center won't persist between
> > log-ins. For Suse's KDE, you need to add a symbolic link to
> > /opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-settings-daemon in KDE's Autostart folder.
> > Something like this: ln -s /opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-settings-daemon
> > $HOME/.kde/Autostart
>
>
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