[H-GEN] Linux distributions

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:20:05 +1000 gavin duley
<gavin at microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> On 27/08/12 16:30, David Seikel wrote:
>   > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:18:29 +1000 gavin duley
> > <gavin at microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> * enlightenment: until a recent software update, it didn't have the
> >> full Applications menu that Gnome, XFCE & Unity give you. Now it
> >> does, but crashes every time you access the 'Accessories'
> >> sub-menu ...
> >
> > Would that be the old Enlightenment DR16, or the latest DR17?  Two
> > completely different beasts.  The latest DR17 is expecting a release
> > "in a few weeks".  The developers are busy beating the bugs out of
> > it now.  I happen to be one of them some times.
> 
> The software package is called 'e17' but is version 
> 0.16.999.55225-1build1, according to apt-cache. I'd been assuming the 
> bug is Ubuntu specific, but it seems I'm wrong, it's in Debian too:
> 
> Debian:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646077
> 
> Ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e17/+bug/1014717

Fairly old then.  The library with that bug was version 1.0.  1.2 of
that library is the current release, with the next release already in
beta.  Note that the first bug report you linked is from almost a year
ago, but it's the same version as the more recent bug report, and the
one you mentioned.

I'm on E17 (AKA Enlightenment DR17) 0.16.999.75639, and not seeing that
crash.  This was compiled by me from SVN head in the last week or
so, but the bug was fixed ages ago, last year I think.  The "75639" part
is the SVN revision number.  0.16.999 means that it's the unreleased
0.17 version, that gets bumped up to 0.17 in the next few weeks if it
gets released on schedule.

If I where you I'd try E17 out again once it's actually been released.
It's likely to work a lot better than a year old pre release version.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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