/. XD2

In case there was any doubt as to the nature of the Ximian press:

http://tinyurl.com/edjh

Snippets from real users (all except the last scored 5) in the same
forum write:

[Mike]

Personally I snarfed the Ximian artwork/theme and stuck with my RH9
desktop. It does everything I need, and is pretty well
organised. Nonetheless, for business I would definately consider it,
if only for the integrated OO and printing work.

[A5un]

For Redhat 9 user, there is a serious problem with rpm db conflict. It
has been reported here [ximian.com], so install at your own risk.
 
[TheFlu]

I searched for quite a while, trying to figure out how to change the
default browser for XD2 from Galeon to Opera.

[jeramybsmith]

My biggest problem with Ximian is that it breaks your distro's
dependency tree. Sometiems they will use split packages wheres your
vendor doesn't. Installing ximian means you break your upgrade path,
now why would anyone want that?

[Anonymous Coward]

I installed it the day it came out. I've been mucking with it for a
week now and have some observations.

1) What is the "integration" with OpenOffice? Aside from a different
splash screen? OK, my theme fonts come across to the user interface,
and it uses Ximian icons now, but it loads (the first time) as slowly
as ever.  [Though this doesn't mention the reports of how unstable the
XD2 OO is.]

2) They should have left the GDM splash screen scheme alone. It took a
while to figure out how to replace their splash screen with my old
(custom) one.

3) Mozilla is broken and shouldn't have been released. When on a page
that uses javascript to open a smaller window (like TV Guide listings
is where it can easily be reproduced) then sometimes the text in the
child window is randomly truncated. There are other bugs but that's
the most glaring.

4) Ximian cripped Galeon so that it can no longer use themes!!! Bad
Ximian.

5) Ximian's installer destroys a users custom menus even when told to
leave them alone. My RedHat "system tools" menu is gone, along with my
Crossover Office menu. There's got to be an easy way to restore my old
menus but I haven't found it yet.

6) The RedHat "alert" icon no longer works. I miss it - it was a nice
way to tell instantly if there were any updates (yeah I know, RedHat
sends out emails for their updates, but I still miss it).

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