Re: gnustep beginner

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 8/11/03 6:20 PM, Manuel Teira at manuel.teira@softhome.net wrote:

>> I'm just looking at GNUstep and trying to understand what it is.  I sit
>> under Debian so I've installed all gnustep-* packages and tried to run
>> some GNUstep applications from the examples. Unfortunately I've got a
>> problem: not one text string is displayed in any application. So, what is
>> I see is empty windows, buttons, tables... At the first, I thought that
>> it is something wrong with fonts and locale (one is ru_RU.KOI8-R).
>> But playing with text-niked Inc.app I pushed some button in a head row of
>> some table and text appeared inside the table. There were very strange
>> colors (like the dark grey foreground and the black background) and when
>> I tried to scroll the table something broke down and white strips appeared
>> on the black background.
> 
> I also had a lot of problems with the debian packages. At least in the
> unstable distribution, that I'm using, the packages were broken a week ago.

I did not use debian packages, I recompiled everything from CVS of some
weeks ago, I used xlib backend. I had no strings, no text at all (even the
menues were smaller).

I read other people had this problem, do they use debian? If so something is
incompatible with debian (I used 68k).

ric