What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Jan 24 14:11:20 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2011, 14:05 -0500 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 12:43 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:51:20 -0500,
> > >   Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 17:44 +0200, cornel panceac wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > oh, but should it start panels? or at least the gnomeshell?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, it starts gnome-shell, unless your system is not capable of running
> > > > it, in which case it starts gnome-panel+metacity.
> > > 
> > > I did a yum upgrade from F14 to rawhide a month or so ago and have been doing
> > > contunuous updates since then. Nothing seems to have dragged in gnome-shell.
> > > It's probably worth thinking about a way to it installed for people doing
> > > yum upgrades from F13 or F14. I am not sure if using preupgrade has the same
> > > issue or not.
> > 
> > That is a good point. We should perhaps add a gnome-session ->
> > gnome-shell dependency.
> 
> Please don't. GDM already requires gnome-session and with gnome-shell
> and it's deps the Xfce spin would be way over CD size.
> 

I've added the dependency to gnome-panel. That should achieve the same
for gnome users on upgrade, without affecting other spins.



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