[NTLUG:Discuss] Ximian™

[Aaron Goldblatt]

> Anyone used this?  Feedback about it?
> http://www.ximian.com/index.html

I've used Ximian's Gnome, although I didn't get to Evolution.

I liked it but found some trouble that made it sort of hard for me to deal 
with, so when I trashed the machine and went to Suse 7.3 (from RedHat 
7.2), I went with stock gnome.org Gnome instead.

My issues were basically with Red Carpet, Ximian's auto-installer thingie, 
and its interface with RedHat.  I found it slow and sometimes unreliable 
in doing its updates.  It never actually broke the machine, but having to 
try an update three or four times was irritating.

Also, it could apparently only do rpm --upgrade, and not install multiple 
versions of a single library.  There is an update to libgtkhtml out there, 
and that upgrade removed a previous version upon which gnucash 1.6.4 (the 
current version) depended.  If I allowed it to upgrade, it would 
automatically remove gnucash too.  It was really strange.

They offer "channels" of software distribution, currently including 
RedHat, Ximian, Loki demos, StarOffice, and a couple others.

The upside is that it will install StarOffice and it will actually work, 
something I could never do as non-root before.

To be honest, except for RedCarpet, about all I found that was wildly 
different about Ximian's Gnome was the theme.  It's nice, but nothing to 
write home about compared to the usual Gnome.

As for email clients ... well ... I'm sticking with mutt for now.  =)

YMMV, of course.

ag