Building garnome-2.10.0.1: the short take

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

The garnome team has redeemed themselves.  GNOME-2.10.0.1 builds under
YDL-4.0.1 with only some minor modifications.  I will report in detail
later.


The good news
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* Lots of new toys

	http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/rnwhatsnew.html

* Adoption of the new [emerging] Free Desktop menu standard

	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec

KDE is one of the players in developing the menu standard so I expect
common menu mechanisms for both GNOME and KDE.


The Bad news
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* As this point in space-time there is no GUI-based tool to edit
GNOME-2.10.x menus. 

This is not a "show stopper". [Read the spec :-)]


-Joseph

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