I'm thinking about giving Dropline Gnome a shot on my Slackware 9.1 box...

I'd like to get your opinions on it... Specially if you've used it already:

- Why do you love it so much???

- Why do you think it sucks???

- Why do you think it's better than Slackware 9.1's default Gnome???

- Why do you think it's not better than Slackware 9.1's default Gnome???

- AND/OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANNA SAY ABOUT DROPLINE GNOME


I like tweaked software, which is why I'm gonna check this out, but I'm still not very sure what the deal is with it:

- What do the tweaks mainly consist of???

- Are they worth it???

- Yes, I know I need to make my own opinion, and I will, but I want to hear YOURS also!!!

- Is there anything special I should know before installing Dropline Gnome???


Thanks in advance for your input!!!

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I never really saw any advantage over regular gnome and it seemed really invasive, I'm going to have a look at Dropline 2.6 though.

I personally have been very happy with Dropline on my Slackware box. The packages stay very current and easy to upgrade, and I have had little or no problems with library conflicts. Things that did not work for me with the Slackware Gnome (such as SMB browsing in Nautilus) work fine under Dropline.

For me it seems to be a more polished implementation of Gnome. I have not had any reason to uninstall it so I can't speak about how difficult that may be.

Bob

i have never been a fan of gnome, but i think that dropline has done a wonderful job of setting it up and making for a painless, easy install and the couple times i have tried it i have been pleased. still dont care for gnome though.

I used to be very anti-gnome until I actually tried Dropline. It's damn good to say the least, and a great way to keep current; although now I use swaret.

Some of the dropline packages are not on the slack disc - useful when compiling certain software & hunting to fill dependencies. I've never tried dropline itself because it looked too slow to do with a dial up 56k modem. Has anyone done thi s & how long did it take?

Yep. Do you want to run Dropline Gnome or Slack? To me, Slack is more important. There are also security issues and install glitches, major uninstall issues, occasional update issues, application compatibility issues, etc. I think the DLG people should just bring out their own entire distro instead of clobbering people's Slacks. Kinda parasitic. But if you want a nice Gnome and don't mind the occasional issue, it's great, I guess. I don't even have the normal Gnome at this point.

I've posted on this elsewhere and this gets asked *all the time*.

Put it this way Slackware is about doing things by hand and Dropline is this AUTO feature, so it's not really
the Slackware way, and it has been known to cause problems

Dropline 2.6 is fun. I start upgrading before dinner. After downloading for hours, the installation take a long time to install the packages. I found the application stopped at 100% and I just ctrl-c it.

There are some differences, some ms-ttf(!) is installed on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and XFree 4.3 is changed to Xorg (slackware 9.2 is going to use Xfree 4.4?). It deleted my xmms and use BMP instead. It is funny to see the change in bash prompt as well. The theme/setting I used is basically unchanged. The Abiword font problems is finally solved and dropline come with more utilities and latest applications. I am sure that my sister would like it. I would not use it in my pc though.

I feel like if I am using redhat or windows like things.

Codec is right. DG 2.6 is fun.

No--fun is an understatement. It's orgasmic.

I never ever used gnome again since my first linux-desktop whit suse 6.3. Thatone came whit gnome and kde. gnome was very bad, kde was just bad. so i went whit kde

But now i am kind of curious, and want to try the new gnome thingy.. but it seems that installing dropline gnome does more than just installing gnome.

So when i install dropline, does that mean my current setup is more or less replaced by the dropline setup? cause I don't really like the idea of that. It looks nice and all, but i don't know what the install-program will do to my system... And i do want to keep my system as is. just gnome 2.6 besides it, as a extra choice just to check it out.

So what is the real deal whit this dropline setup thing?

I came here to vote for the first option, but I seemed to have already voted for the 2nd option, I voted before I tried dropline which was kinda stupid...

Anyway, to tell the truth I don't like it. It uninstalled xmms, reinstalled some other applications such as GIMP and Mozilla, some may consider this updating nice, but I don't want my desktop environment keeping me up to date and not letting me choose, I want swaret to do it where I have full control.

My next problem, it was real sluggish. I wouldn't let this put you off as most other people say it's fine, it's probably just me even though I have a pretty decent machine, but even typing stuff in the terminal was unresponsive.

I don't like how it overwrites the original Gnome. To answer the post directly above me, yes, it does overwrite it.

My final beef, and the biggest one, is after all this crap I try uninstalling it and it won't uninstall. Tried 3 times, rebooted my PC, but dropline still starts up. I'm gonna go make a thread about it after this, so don't accuse me of cross posting.

For somebody who likes the idea of this whole automatic deal, with eyecandy, then I'd say give it a try if you don't mind the trouble of uninstalling it if you don't like it.

For everybody else, which should be most slackware users as they choose to do things the simple and manual way by choosing slackware, I would say steer clear. This is what I'm trying to do, if dropline will let me uninstall it.

I'm now using XFce. IMO it has as good as or better eyecandy than dropline as it's unobtrusive, yet still has the nice features. I also love the speed, configurability, and the whole interface just seems intuitive to me.

Enough of my rant, I didn't mean to piss off any dropline fans, it's just been a pretty awful experience for me.

THe latest release on slack9.1 on my laptop with the new xorg Xfree stuff screwed up my install... I won't make that mistake again. I don't use dropline for the gnome.. just for the extra programs. Personally I hate it and I hate gnome. Enlightenment is the way to go

Yea Dropline is perfect for my wife, she loves it. It actually sparked my interest in Gnome in general. I dont use it on my machine because it reminds me of when I tried out redhat 8. That and PAM on slackware is just kooky. I suppose it isnt actually needed per se but its just.

It's kinda wierd, but I like it, but its wierd....havent realy made up my mind yet.
That and the whole xorg thing takes a little getting used to...