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Closed AccountSep 25, 2007
because how i burned the cd had everything to do with the installer not working! even though i didn't say what the problems were or the fact that the cd checked out fine.
muepSep 25, 2007
Have you ever tried to use Regedit to configure anything? Gconf-Editor looks like Regedit in the interface, but if you look at the actual contents of the keys and values, you'll see that one of them has logical names for them, the other doesn't.Techically the Windows registry and Gconf are completely different.I have found Gconf easy to use to do the occasional more obscure setting. It's different to editing text files directly (though gconf settings are stored in XML files, feel free to edit if you want), but the nice thing is that the configuration format is the same in many applications, vs tens of different conf files of different non-gconf apps.
macewanSep 25, 2007
@Dhalegren, What are you talking about? It is part of Gutsy silly.
dandelionmoodSep 25, 2007
It's actually pretty hard to compile it, and dangerous to install if you don't know exactly what you're doing, so I suggest you to wait for the release of Ubuntu Gutsy (or any distro you like) ...
planckscnstSep 26, 2007
Wow, a real in-depth comment.
darkhackerSep 27, 2007
This is the kind of crap Linus was talking about when he was criticizing GNOME. I love GNOME and am actually interested in contributing patches, but working with some of these developers is like having a three-year-old going "Why?" after everything you say. I think this post speaks magnitudes on the situation...<a class="user" href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337826#c">http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337826#c</a> ...
darkhackerSep 27, 2007
Not only did Digg double post, but it actually messed up the link on the first comment. Use the second link please. Sorry for the trouble.