GNOME 2.19.1 released

GNOME 2.19.1 released

Posted Apr 27, 2007 22:07 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: GNOME 2.19.1 released by tetromino
Parent article: GNOME 2.19.1 released

Hilarious.

At one point or the other in Using gnome I've replaced...

nautilus,
metacity,
gnome-panel,
totem,
gnome-terminal,
and pretty much any other assorted-doo-dads with something I thought worked better at the time.

It's very modular. Out of KDE, Windows, Os X, or any other sort of desktop environment it's about as modular as anybody has done so far.

And then there is XFCE, which pretty much can be summed up as 'Gnome-lite', which a lot of people consider 'Gnome-done-right'.

Avahi itself is pretty kick-ass. I like it a lot. The only downside is that it lacks a lot of scripts needed to launch this or that service it detects, but they aren't very difficult to make.

It was very amusing to go to the airport and have somebody else's SSH service notification pop up on my desktop. Also It's funny when my neighboor's 'Itune' service pops up time to time over wireless.

And if you don't like the gconf editor, I suppose you can do it yourself.

.gconfd/ all XML text files. Nothing going to slow you down there. Except lack of documentation on what a lot of the options are.

I think that is probably one of the most serious shortcommings of Gnome is lack of documentation sometimes.

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