GNOME 2.2.0 released
| From: | Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org> | |
| To: | lwn@lwn.net | |
| Subject: | Announcing the GNOME 2.2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform | |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:55:26 +1100 |
Announcing...
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The GNOME 2.2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform
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Five months ago, we were only just beginning to recover from the enormous
task that was GNOME 2.0. We were committed to a six month release cycle for
2.2, and after such a long period of development and point-releases, we were
excited to be working on new features again. We were, as the release code
names suggested, "Back to the Future".
Today, we bring you the fruits of our first six-month-turnaround release!
Not content with mere success, we've managed to squeeze the six month
process into five, raise the bar for performance and stability and add a
host of new features and tools to the Desktop. Perhaps this is a dangerous
precedent!
You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.2.0 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.2 start page. You can also check out our gallery of
cool screenshots from dedicated GNOME users and testers!
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/
The release team would like to thank all of the hackers, documentors,
testers, translators, maintainers, usability and accessibility dudes,
sysadmins, companies, artists and users who contributed so much to GNOME
2.2. We hope everyone is immensely proud of this release - it rocks way
hard. :-)
Whilst you are enjoying 2.2, the GNOME development team will be running back
to the coalface, eager to work on the next release - in fact, we've already
started! Stay tuned for more information about the 2.3 development series,
coming soon!
"Where we're going, we don't need roads..."
- The GNOME Release Team
--
"The aim of the release process is to finish software, not to develop
it..." - Havoc Pennington
Posted Feb 5, 2003 20:33 UTC (Wed)
by Peter (guest, #1127)
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Remember last time GNOME released ahead of schedule? When the core components of 1.0 were (allegedly) rushed out the door to meet a LinuxWorld announcement deadline or some such? Seems so very long ago. Here's hoping this release comes out a little smoother....
Posted Feb 5, 2003 20:35 UTC (Wed)
by Peter (guest, #1127)
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Oh yeah, almost forgot: congratulations to Jeff and the rest of the GNOME release team. Releasing anything on time is hard. Releasing this much ahead of schedule must have been much harder. Very cool, though. Almost creepy cool.
Posted Feb 5, 2003 21:11 UTC (Wed)
by Strike (guest, #861)
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Posted Feb 5, 2003 21:14 UTC (Wed)
by gadeiros (guest, #3929)
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Is this correct English (American?) ? In German there is something like "unser aller" but refers usually to a single object or something uncountable like "unser aller Gesundheit" and means something that belongs to each of us distinctly, i.e. my health (Gesundheit) is not identical to someone else's health.
Posted Feb 5, 2003 21:16 UTC (Wed)
by Strike (guest, #861)
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</pathetic joke>
Posted Feb 5, 2003 22:15 UTC (Wed)
by Peter (guest, #1127)
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Nah, you're subtly missing the flavor. Switched, the words were. </y.>
Posted Feb 6, 2003 1:10 UTC (Thu)
by apw (guest, #9469)
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Posted Feb 6, 2003 1:27 UTC (Thu)
by tjc (guest, #137)
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Yeah, except that doesn't look so bad! :-) What's up with the [cancel][ok] thing anyway? Several times I've clicked cancel thinking that I clicked ok, and then sit there for 10 seconds wondering "why isn't anything happening?" Or worse yet, "why is my system rebooting?" The entire usability test group must consist of Apple users. Perhaps metacity should reverse the default order of its titlebar buttons just to be consistent, instead of this half Mac/half Windows thing.
Posted Feb 6, 2003 10:30 UTC (Thu)
by pointwood (guest, #2814)
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Posted Feb 6, 2003 11:30 UTC (Thu)
by jdub (guest, #27)
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Because the Desktop is based on the Developer Platform, and is usually the first large software stack to use the new features available, we release them together. Then third party developers are able to target the 2.2 release, being certain of the functionality that is available to them.
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Well, I've been using the Release Candidates as they have come out and things have been pretty smooth. The new stuff too, even. I like acme, for example, it allows me to use the multimedia keys on my keyboard as they were meant to. And I finally get the font config dialog I saw when I played with Redhat 8.0 on my Debian system so I can mess with the hinting settings with the font config tool instead of gconf-editor :) The theme settings seem to work better than they were before, but with a few exceptions. So, it's not perfect, but it's quite good.
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"Thanks to our all users and contributors!"GNOME 2.2.0 released
So should it have been
"Thanks to all our users and contributors!"
or is it correct as it is.
Can't imagine a typo in the About dialog would go into final...
I'm really just curious (i.e. no flame or nitpicking intended).
Nope, you're right. The words switched were.GNOME 2.2.0 released
GNOME 2.2.0 released
Nope, you're right. The words switched were.
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I'm a bit confused - why is it called "The GNOME 2.2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform"? I don't use GNOME - is this supposed to be primarily used by developers or?
Developer Platform?
The "Desktop" part of the release is the basic desktop environment and utilities -> definitely for users, it rocks way hard. The "Developer Platform" part of the release is the set of libraries for which we guarantee API/ABI compatibility during the 2.x releases -> definitely for developers.Developer Platform?