Andy Chase

Well, thanks to a broken dryer I'm still up at 12:30 AM, but I have a lot to show for it. I'm running ROX-filer with IceWM, and so far I'm liking it better than GNOME and KDE... for one thing, it is lightning fast for exploring through system folders. Configuration is easy and sensible, and all in all it promises to be a great desktop environment. I just need to get some basic apps installed now; text editor, a better terminal than Xterm, etc.



ROX is so fast, in fact, that all of a sudden I can see how slow my build of Mozilla 0.98 is. It seems like a good 10 seconds before the browser window even opens. I'm not sure whether or not I can install Galeon without a full GNOME installation... I'll have to see.



I must confess - Glib, GTK, and GDK-Pixbuf all gave me numerous vague errors about not being able to handle shared libraries correctly, but they compiled without any fatal errors. The only problem was that none of the GDK-Pixbufloader shared objects were created. After about an hours' worth of surfing around trying to find a solution, I took the easy way out and copied the libraries over from the old Mandrake partition. ROX started instantly!



What this may mean in terms of installing future apps, I don't know. I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.