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GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 (2.7.92) ====================================== Release Candidate 1 marks the start of our Hard Code Freeze, on the way towards the final GNOME 2.8 release in a couple of weeks. The final lap! Let's just hope we're not dragged off the track at the last minute by a strangely dressed Irishman. Even though it almost sounds like fun... At last, without further ado, RELEASE CANDIDATE ONE! platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS tar.gz: 45M total tar.bz2: 31M total desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS tar.gz: 146M total tar.bz2: 103M total bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS tar.gz: 13M total tar.bz2: 8.1M total Notes about the new MIME system ------------------------------- As of GNOME 2.7.4, the old MIME system was replaced with a new shared specification found on freedesktop.org. There are a couple comments to go along with this: * In order the to see any applications available, they must be registered with the MIME system. This can be done by getting the latest verion of desktop-file-utils and running: update-desktop-database $PREFIX/applications jhbuild in CVS has been modified to build this, and we expect applications to do this on install automatically in the future. * The new user interface is modeled after the proposal at: http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/ The old File Types capplet has been removed in favor of a nautilus-only interface. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. Please check the 2.7 start page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/ Happy testing! - The GNOME Release Team -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "The GPL is good. Use it. Don't be silly." - Michael Meeks -- devel-announce-list mailing list devel-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list (Log in to post comments)
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 1, 2004 21:37 UTC (Wed) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link] So, for the benefit of us die-hard KDE users, what's coming up in GNOME 2.8 that we should be aiming to compete with, or that's so darn good that we ought to seriously consider switching our allegiances?
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 1, 2004 21:52 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] With the release of Gnome 2.8, I'd say the game's over. Further resistence on the part of the KDE developers would be futile.
(Just kidding ;-)
I'm running FC Rahide, which has 2.7.9x. It's basically an evolutionary release. If you like the KDE style of desktop interface now, you'll probably still prefer it over Gnome 2.8.
I rather like the clean, no nonsense, look and feel of my Bluecurve/Gnome desktop, myself. ;-)
-Steve Bergman
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 1, 2004 22:33 UTC (Wed) by gavino (guest, #16214) [Link] I hope the Gnome developers have a good hard look at grass-roots projects like GoneME http://www.goneme.org/
I have no affilation with this site other than reading what the site has to say and agreeing with it almost 100%.
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 2, 2004 7:44 UTC (Thu) by janpla (guest, #11093) [Link] I must say that I have been feeling increasingly disappointed with GNOME for a long while. The problem for me is that there isn't any real alternative - I don't like KDE, period.
Too many useful things disappear from GNOME without notice, and it seems impossible to get through the wall of self-satisfied stuck-upness of the present design committee. As I have said many times: I went with Linux and laer with GNOME exactly because it was different from Windows. But GNOME has for too long been approaching Windows, but only on the bad points: the overly 'smart' and 'cool' interface, the fact that it is impossible to find any useful iformation of documentation etc etc. The disappearance of little useful features like displaying the window position when you move it, the senselessly stupid session manager (or perhaps it is just that the only options you are allowed to se in the pitiful configuration interface are the most useless ones?) - I could continue ad nauseam.
Perhaps one should migrate back to version 1.x?
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 2, 2004 9:23 UTC (Thu) by pheldens (guest, #19366) [Link] Check out xfce4 it feels like somewhere between a WM only and a Gnome approach.http://www.xfce.org/
It's especially nice combined with ROX filer.
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 4, 2004 10:16 UTC (Sat) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] I got myself to use KDE in order to evaluate it for corporate desktopuse. I continue to use it because it is so apparently built by hackers. That is, it may be lacking in human interface guideline groups (I seriously don't know about this) but it makes it up in small shortcuts and practical functions everywhere. Highlighting xterms on activity is default, pressing a key will give you an xterm in the selected directory (not only in the file manager but in the editor and other places), all the toolbars are configurable in an identical way, lots of small stuff like that. I've even ventured into using its web browser and mail reader. So far very good, most functions from pine are there.
GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 Posted Sep 4, 2004 22:39 UTC (Sat) by zdzichu (guest, #17118) [Link] like displaying the window position when you move itWell, GNOME has nothing to do with displaying window position while moving. I am using IceWM with GNOME and there is small display with coordinates while I'm moving windows.
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