Updating Gnome in OpenSUSE 10.2

[k0NG0]

Has anyone tried updating Gnome in OpenSUSE? It's a quite substantial package, and one needs to add a repository for it (since "open" apparently means "no automatic updates for you!"). SUSE is generally pretty KDE-lovin', too, and I wonder if that mean this'll be shaky.

The default Gnome version is an ancient 2.16 from late 2006, and there is 2.20 to replace it with (not the latest, but less ancient). Which I would like very much for no particular reason (other than a bug that makes native widgets in Firefox 3.0 look like rump).

I'll download Ubuntu Chesty Cherry or Meandering Macaque or whatever they call the latest one. (Horny Hank?) Just in case things go boom. Just need to find out how to make the /home folder work if I change distro. But there is an old thread on that subject if I'm not mistaken.

[Cogar]

Typically, all but the most adventurous just keep what the distribution came with and then upgrade the desktop environment when the distribution issues a new release . . . but you probably already knew that. Although I think openSUSE 10.3 was "one step forward and two steps back" release, you could always consider that as a means of upgrading your DE. I think it would entail less risk overall and give you a few other goodies besides. I've run both GNOME and KDE with openSUSE and they both seem of equal quality. I think starting in version 10.2 that GNOME became the new default desktop for openSUSE, so I suspect that they are serious about doing a good job with it. My two, uh, ten cents.

[k0NG0]

Thanks.

I just want to upgrade Gnome, not do a full distro upgrade. I may just leave it as it is (since it does work, even if the drawing bug draws a flat-colored box surrounding all native widgets on web pages). It may just be easier wiping SUSE alltogether and installing the latest Ubuntu. I just need to inventory all the stuff I've compiled from source and see how I can migrate that. (Which is booooring.)