[5588] in testers
Re: GNOME.org needs to be SLAPPED!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Jun 27 15:25:42 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 27 Jun 2003 15:25:40 -0400
Well, the actual pedigree of the software is different from what I said,
but a little more adherence on their part to "code things in an upwardly
compatible way" would have been most welcome.
But as we all know, change is good. Extreme change is extremely good.
:-{
-wdc
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:17, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:05, Bill Cattey wrote:
> > ... and of course everyone who adopts GNOME II and the latest revisions
> > of sawfish will NEVER have a set of config files that are used on TWO
> > systems, running old and new configs...
> >
> > I just logged into an Athena 9.1 system
> > My window manager commands are configured for the new ones.
> > My evolution is configured for the new one.
>
> Remember that sawfish is not part of GNOME 2.2 and that Evolution 1.2 is
> still a GNOME 1 program. (Evolution 1.4 is out, and it's a GNOME 2
> program, but it came out very recently and isn't part of the release.
> I've put some time into integrating it, but it might or might not make
> it into 9.2 during the summer.)
>