Gnome borked after recent Lucid updates

[Ants Pants]

Well Liam,  I actually don;t want my real name on the internet if you don;t
mind and I'm sorry if an old nickname has stuck. I'll try to be more mature
in the future .... just to please you.

I won't go into what sort of a lecturing person I think you are as I'm way
too polite.

Have a lovely weekend, old man.

On 9 April 2010 19:41, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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