[Novalug] Ubuntu 8.04 - wallpaper and desktop items have disappeared

[greg pryzby]

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TO be clear, this is a GNOME  issue and NOT UBUNTU in my experience. I
do not know what Jim did, but I have hosed gnome on more systems than I
can to remember.

and that GNOME REQUIRES Evolution, don't get me started. Don't even get
me started.

Maybe gentoo is the distro I need to look into.

Joseph Brinkley wrote:
> "Geez Jay :P"
> 
> Ubuntu is known for being unstable it grabs the latest and sometimes not
> so greatest. It is definitely an experimental distro a since Ubuntu has
> been out i have seen more and more start grabbing at these New package
> and setting them in to prime time with out giving it a test runs.
> 
> Meh someday they will slow down again right now we can expect things to
> keep up this way for awhile.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org
> <mailto:jhart at kevla.org>> wrote:
> 
>     /rant mode on
> 
>     So, you changed one little thing, now you have broken system.  I'm
>     sick of
>     "new features" in Linux when basic functionality is still an issue. I am
>     wondering when distros will stop adding new feature after new
>     feature when the
>     underlying infrastructure is not as stable as it could be.  Make the
>     distros
>     core features stable, then go back to adding new features...  Cool
>     stuff ain't
>     cool if it doesn't work 100% of the time.
> 
>     /rant mode off
> 
>     Jay
> 
>     Jim, this is not aimed at you for anything you did.
> 
>     > I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
>     >
>     > I was fiddling around with changing wallpaper, and I have broken
>     > the desktop somehow.  When I log in, none of the items on my desktop
>     > are visible, and no wallpaper is displayed.  The files and directories
>     > are still present, but they are not being displayed on the desktop.
>     >
>     > If I select System | Preferences | Appearance from the menu, the
>     > Appearance Preference window opens for a half-second and then
>     > closes before I can see or change anything.
>     >
>     > Any ideas about how to fix this?
>     >
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     >
>     >
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