Well, first the obvious: have you compiled and installed the aurora-library? That should make the trick =) Else, what is the path?

Okey, thanks for the bug report. This is because the applications.menu file is not detrected på aurora-panel. it's probably in /etc/xdg/menus. Symlink it to /usr/etc/xdg/menus and it will solve this problem.

Thanks! (aurora-panel:7618): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent Testing files: MenuBuilder Error: User menu does not exist. Disabling. done Loading files: done Building menues: done Building item list: done

Thanks! but now i get this problem: (aurora-panel:7618): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent Testing files: MenuBuilder Error: User menu does not exist. Disabling. done Loading files: done Building menues: done Building item list: done

Is this a problem? Does it affect aurora-panel in any way? That disabling test means that it couldn't find the user menu at (homedir)/.config/menus/applications.menu. Thats all. It should be runnable even without that.

This is a really odd problem. Either, you don't have glibmm (and that's really odd, since it should have shown up earlier) or you don't have the right version of glibmm. Make sure you have the latest (stable) version... If the problem it still not solved, give me your versions of glib and glibmm and I shall look into it.

hi demom...thanks for replying.. well, i had glibmm-2.4.7-r1, but updated now to last estable 2.6.1 as you said. Now my error is very strange...take a look.. creating libalib.la (cd .libs && rm -f libalib.la && ln -s ../libalib.la libalib.la) make[2]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luis/Desktop/aurora-library/src' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/luis/Desktop/aurora-library' make[2]: Warning: File `COPYING' has modification time 8.4e+06 s in the future make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[2]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luis/Desktop/aurora-library' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/luis/Desktop/aurora-library' my time/date are set correctly right now...and i didn't have any "Clock skew detected" issue while compiling my last kernel... cheers :-)

Hi again. Okey, I searched the net after this, and what I found out was that it's the sources that has it's creation dates set in the future. 'Touch' every file, and you should be in the clear.

thanks for that input =)

It has not died, not at all. This is my pet project, but I also have alot of other stuff to do. Updates will be irregular (for now) but I tries to answer all messages and emails I get.

Brave! definively diferent...

Sooo, you don't want a product geared at making Linux more "familiar" interface-wise to Windows users that don't understand 95% of what a computer does? Besides, some people do like it. That's not a sin.

Absolutely not! As the author of Linux on Desktop (do a search on google for it) even tough I wrote a 40+ page guide on using Linux for everyday, with my experience of using it for over 5 years, I have to say it is simply not ready for the desktop. Linux's problem does not lie in the user interface, but lack of proper drivers for hardware and peripherals. As an example, Linux scanner support is still a joke. The Soundblaster cards from 98 still don't have any sort of high quality drivers. (I'm talking about latest Dekstop distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva) Now, even if these problems are solved, Linux IS different from Windows, and the same goes for OSX. You don't see Apple trying to imitate Windows (except for the notorious panel) Those who don't know anything about computers, don't know how to use it period, be it Windows, Linux or OSX. Those who are familiar enough and willing to install Linux should be ready for a change. Giving them a UI that behaves like Windows, but is not quite like it only produces confusion. The current popular GUIs, KDE and Gnome are fairly powerful. By trying to create yet another gui you are simply wasting your efforts which would be better spent on improving the existing. By the way, the unpopular Windows GUI on Linux has already been done to death, just check out XPDE. Finally, this is simply the wrong place to post your new GUI. This site is for Gnome themes and related, not a new one. Don't get me wrong, I applaud your programming capabilities, but my opinion is that they are being wasted.

Guess the comment wasn't from the author...change all 'you/your' to 'he/his' :)

Hmm... What you write is interesting, but in many cases are you wrong. Why? (Late answer) Starters: It's helluva easier to start writing something on your own that to jupt into a project that's already has alot of developers. I think. Second: It's not supposed to be a Windows-clone. I created Aurora because of something neither KDE nor GNOME could give me - a beutiful and intuitive desktop. They're just ugly as hell, at least in their default setups. I think. Third: What you are describing with the missing Linux drivers is a bad circle - you say that we don't have to spend time creating an easy to use DE because there is no drivers. Well, why is there so few drivers? Because the companies making the hardware don't think it's worth the trouble porting them to another platform. Why? Because Linux is'nt adjusted to the masses, those who don't know how to use it. How come? There is no userfirendly desktop on Linux. Follow me? Forth: You say that you have spend five years working on GNU/Linux, writing user manuals and such... stuff. But somehow you missed the meaning with Open Source - which is not to have ome or two big players but a helluva lot of small players. Fifth: When I created Aurora it was a design job. I posted it here to get responses from graphics nerds =). And last: Constructive critic is the bomb, dude. Negative critics is just lame. Shut up or shut down.