GNOME 0.99 troubles

["Adam C. Powell, IV" <adam powell nist gov>]

Hello,

I built GNOME 0.99 on Monday (now have 0.99.2 libs and core), and found
a couple of major problems.  Has anyone else tried GNOME on alpha?  Are
these Alpha-specific problems?  Or just specific to my setup?

To recap my Tuesday evening message (cc'd to this list):

   * Three background tasks (gnome-name-service, gnome-session and gmc)
     and every GNOME app each take a full load point even when idle,
     slowing down the system enormously.
   * The panel applets and "About GNOME" only update on mouse events
     (like, including the clock!).

I have all of the latest releases, without anything from cvs, built from
source tarballs.

These problems, IMHO, should be show stoppers for the 1.0 release- if
they are real problems.  So, anyone else seen these?

Aside from these problems, everything built and ran beautifully.  Very
beautifully- my favorite theme is Marble. :-)  But since I am doing
heavy numerical work, it really is impossible to have these idle apps
burning up so much CPU time, so I've stopped running GNOME- until the
next release. :-(

Thanks,

-Adam `Cold Fusion' Powell, IV http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~powell/ ____
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