Gnome 2.12 for Sarge

Some nice spanish folks have backported gnome 2.12 for sarge. Thus saving me from the urge to switch to Ubuntu . Works well, there was a couple of minor problems with the menu but I fixed that by installing a couple of extra packages (the python bindings and debian menu entries were missing).

It also switched me over to xorg, which went without a hitch much to my suprise. Nautilus is now nice and snappy to startup, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to upgrade, although I’ll have to retrain myself into using the gui as I’ve got so used to using xterms for everything. Not that I’ll ditch the xterms completely, but there are some things that are easier/quicker to do with a gui file manager.