Gnome borked after recent Lucid updates

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ants Pants <antsmailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Errrrrrm, thank you, Liam.
>
> I'm totally aware of what this is. I'm not a noob. I happen to be a linux
> user of 10 years.

Good for you. I'd been using it for 4 then, and Unix for a decade
before that. Your point is?

And FWIW, posting with such a childish pseudonym makes *me* think
"gods, another n00b". I can't speak for anyone else, but "Ants Pants"
as a username does not make me think "mature, sensible user with a
grievance", it strongly suggests "11Y old who is playing about". Which
is fine, but is what prompted the tone of my reply.

> I've posted a message to stop other people from upgrading until things are
> sorted. I'm sorry if I'm trying to help but call me old fashioned.

When one is testing beta code, generally, one grabs every update
going. That's what beta-testing tends to /mean/ in terms of FOSS. Then
when problems happen, you report it and wait for another update to fix
it.

> It's also to bring it to the attention of the developers. My comment of
> "what a terible update" meant that what has gone wrong is a pretty obvious
> big thing and not that it should be production ready or that I'm expecting
> that.

Well, fair enough.

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