Comments on: Welcome GNOME 3! We have a present for you…

By: Don

Don — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:22:21 +0000

How do I make gnome 3 co-exist with my classic gnome ( 2.3### ) in OpenSuse 11.4 ? .. So I can have the choice at log in ! .. can it be done ? … if so .. how ? .. please !
thank you

By: HD

HD — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:28:19 +0000

Hi all…

I newby, I have opensuse 11.4 with Gnome 2.32…

I want to update to Gnome 3, I allready add the Gnome repositories, and look for online-uptade but there is no patch available.

I don’t know how to update my Gnome…

do you know?

Thaks

By: 6205

6205 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:17:58 +0000

GNOME3 is nice, however, apps which do not integrate well, like Firefox 4 will not use nice new Aidaiwa GTK theme and instead of that are using Clearlooks, what looks like shit..

By: gwaitsi

gwaitsi — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:50:39 +0000

Would be good if someone could provide working step-by=step. I have tried a number of ways i.e. 11.4 fresh install with kde and gnome. in all ways i have tried nothing works. i get missing packages, i.e. libnm-util problems with downgrading which trashes system, etc

By: Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

Duncan Mac-Vicar P. — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:01:34 +0000

Which is wrong (zypper up).

use zypper dup -r gnome3_repo

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:58:06 +0000

we’ll most likely release the GNOME 3 DVD’s we give to GNOME. Won’t be very ‘openSUSE’ as it’ll have upstream branding and all, however. But you can create something in SUSEStudio.com once the repository is officially announced :D

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:55:18 +0000

There will be an openSUSE repository (currently kind’a experimental still, the GNOME team wants to ensure full stability before they announce it).

A openSUSE based LiveCD – well, that’s what fcrozat’s LiveCD IS, but you can, once the repository is live, also build your own on susestudio.com and we’ll probably release the ISO of the DVD’s we donate to GNOME.

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:53:19 +0000

Both the app installer and the bug reporting are being worked on – with some luck, the next openSUSE will have fixed those two gripes you have. Otherwise, YaST is pretty awesome. Sure it’s not special for package management (well it IS powerful, more than most other options, just not easy to use). But it is pretty much the only admin tool offering things like set-up-a-web/dhcp/mail-server-in-5-clicks, vm support, stuff like that… It’s quite powerful for a sysadmin and a normal user would barely need to start it up once we’ve got a new software installer.

The repository mess – check opensuse.org/Tumbleweed. So yes, there are some things which openSUSE has to fix. But there is also plenty we’re miles ahead in compared to our competition!

Hope you enjoy your new favorite OS :D

By: jaypeesmith

jaypeesmith — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:59:39 +0000

Tried it last night but I had to roll back. The Networkmanager update was a problem for me and couldn’t get to Yast2 easily. Hopefully, this will work soon. Gnome 3.0 looks rather promising.

By: inami

inami — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:56:14 +0000

Its quite easy and hard.
For my case i added the gnome stable repository as said above with a higher priority than the rest.
Run “zypper ref” (without the quotes) in terminal super user mode.
Then did “zypper up.” Do not forget to install gnome shell.
Voila!